Demosthenes Against Conon 39

[39] The contempt, however, which this fellow feels for all sacred things I must tell you about; for I have been forced to make inquiry. For I hear, then, men of the jury, that a certain Bacchius, who was condemned to death in your court, and Aristocrates, the man with the bad eyes, and certain others of the same stamp, and with them this man Conon, were intimates when they were youths, and bore the nickname Triballi ¹ ; and that these men used to devour the food set out for Hecatê ² and to gather up on each occasion for their dinner with one another the testicles of the pigs which are offered for purification when the assembly convenes, ³ and that they thought less of swearing and perjuring themselves than of anything else in the world.