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then you in astonishment cried, How ‘a man and a woman,’ what are you talking about? after a little he went on: Don’ t you understand, said he, what I mean? The man is our friend Hegesandrus there, a man now, though he too used to be a woman, Laodamas’ s woman; as for the woman, she is Timarchus yonder. How the money is being stolen I will tell you. He then proceeded to give a full account of the matter, and in a way that showed that there was no guesswork about it. After he had given you this information, What is it, fellow citizens, said he, that I advise? If the senate sustains the charge against this man and expels him, and then hands him over to the courts, give the senate the usual testimonial;At the close of their year of office the senate had become accustomed to expect a vote of the popular assembly bestowing a crown (garland) as a testimonial for their services. but if they fail to punish him, refuse to give it, and lay up this thing against them for that day.
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after this, when the senate had returned to the senate chamber,The senators had been sitting with the other citizens as members of the assembly. After the adjournment of the assembly, the senate resumed its session. they expelled him on the preliminary ballot, but took him back on the final vote.It appears that on the question of the expulsion of a member there was a preliminary vote with leaves as ballots, and a final one with the ordinary ballots. I must tell you, however unpleasant it is to mention it, that for their failure to hand him over to the courts, or even to expel him from the senate chamber, they failed to receive the usual testimonial. I beg you therefore, fellow citizens, not to present the spectacle of showing resentment toward the senate, and depriving five hundred citizens of a crown because they failed to punish the defendant, and then letting him go free yourselves; and I beg you not to preserve for the popular assembly a public man who has proved useless to the senate.
