[34] For there is no use in attempting, fellow citizens, to drive such men from the platform by shouting at them, for they have no sense of shame. We must try, rather, to break them of their habits by pains and penalties; for so only can they be made endurable.
The clerk shall therefore read to you the laws that are in force to secure orderly conduct
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on the part of our public men. For the law that introduced the presidency of a tribe
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has been attacked in the courts by Timarchus here, in conspiracy with other men like himself, as being inexpedient, their object being to have license to speak, as well as to behave, as they choose.
Against Timarchus. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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