[83] Autolycus, however, did not catch the point of your uproar; he frowned and stopped a moment; then he went on:
But, fellow citizens, we members of the Areopagus neither accuse nor defend, for such is not our tradition, but we do make some such allowance as this for Timarchus: he perhaps, said he,
thought that where everything is so quiet, there will be but little expense for each of you. Again, at the words
quiet and
little expense, he encountered still greater laughter and shouting from you.
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Against Timarchus. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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