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Neither will you ever show that I received money from
Harpalus, for neither was I tried and proved guilty nor did I take money, and if you are
looking for excuse to the notorious decision of the Council or to the Areopagus,1 recall to mind the trial of Aristogeiton2 and hide your
heads in shame3; because I
have no milder injunction for those who have committed this offence against me.
1 According to Plut. Dem. 26, the orator himself moved that the charges should be referred to the Areopagus, which promptly condemned him.
2 Aristogeiton was acquitted, according to Demosthenes, upon the same evidence. See Dem. L. 3.37.
3 Eight references to this passage may be found in Walz's Rhetores Graeci, which has an index.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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