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(To the clerk.)
Now take also the law of Aristophon; for, men of Athens , Solon was thought to have enacted in this instance so wise and democratic a law that you voted to re-enact it.The Law
It is fitting that you, then, acting in defence of the laws, should hold, not that those who ply a trade are aliens, but that those who bring malicious and baseless suits are scoundrels. For, Eubulides, there is another law too regarding idleness to which you, who denounce us who are traders, are amenable.
Against Eubulides. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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