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314 for, while they placed the trial of the greatest crimes in the hands of a single one of the courts,For example, a charge of deliberate murder could come only before the Court of the Areopagus. A charge against the sycophants, on the other hand, could be brought before the Thesmothetae (see 237, note), who prepared the case for trial before a Heliastic Court, in which case the charge was termed γραφή(indictment); or before the Senate of the Five Hundred, in which case the charge was called εἰσαγγελία(impeachment); or before the General Assembly, in which case the charge was termed προβολή(plaint). See Lipsius, Das attische Recht pp. 176 ff. This was, however, true of so many crimes that the point of Isocrates is rather rhetorical. against the sycophants they instituted indictments before the Thesmothetae, impeachments before the Senate, and plaints before the General Assembly, believing that those who plied this trade exceeded all other forms of villainy; for other criminals, at any rate, try to keep their evil-doing under cover,

315 while these flaunt their brutality, their misanthropy, and their contentiousness before the eyes of all. That was the way our ancestors felt about them. But you, so far from punishing the sycophants,The term sycophant is applied here as elsewhere in Isocrates and the other orators to demagogic politicians. actually set them up as accusers and legislators for the rest of the people. And yet there is reason for detesting them now more than at that time;

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