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That Timocrates has done nothing that he ought to have
done, nothing that the laws expressly enjoin, may be concluded from
consideration of what I have already said; and before long you shall be
satisfied, point by point, that he transgressed not merely in so far as he
ignored the dates fixed by statute, and entirely annulled your right of
deliberate consideration, by attempting to legislate during the holiday, but
also in this respect,—that the law he introduced is inconsistent with
all existing statutes.—But first take and read the statute I have
here, which expressly forbids the introduction of any conflicting law, and
authorizes an indictment if such a law should have been introduced.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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