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(To the clerk.) Call, please, Philippides of PaeaniaPaeania, a deme of the tribe Pandionis. to whom this fellow Theocrines made this statement, and the others who know that he made it.
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That Theocrines, men of the jury, if he had been offered the thousand drachmae, would have withdrawn the indictment against my father, I think that you are all convinced, even if no witness had so testified. To prove, however, that he has summoned many other people and preferred indictments against them, and then has compromised the matter, and that he is in the habit of desisting from prosecution on receipt of small bribes, I shall call before you the very persons who paid him, in order that you may not believe him when he declares that it is he who keeps watch over those who propose illegal measures, and that when indictments for illegality are done away with it is the ruin of your democracy. (For it is in this way that all those who sell everything for money are in the habit of talking.)
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(To the clerk.) Call, please, Aristomachus, son of Critodemus, of Alopecê,Alopecê, a deme of the tribe Antiochis. for it is he who paid—or rather in whose house were paid—the mina and a half to this man who cannot be bribed, in the matter of the decree which Antimedon proposed on behalf of the people of Tenedos.Tenedos, an island in the Aegean, off the west coast of Phrygia.
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The Deposition
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Read also in sequence the other depositions of the same sort, and that of HypereidesA prominent Athenian orator and statesman. and Demosthenes. For this goes beyond all else—that the fellow should be most glad, by selling indictments to get money from men, from whom no one else would think of demanding it.That is, these men were too influential to fear blackmail from a man like Theocrines.
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The Depositions
