[14] Well, to their arguments I will oppose your law, a law which you yourselves passed in the expectation of silencing such pretexts; for it expressly says
the elective offices, including all in a single phrase, calling everything which is filled by popular election an
office, and specifying
the superintendents of public works. But Demosthenes is in charge of the construction of walls, superintendent of the greatest of the works;
and all who have charge of any business of the state for more than thirty days, and all to whom is given the presidency of a court; but every superintendent of public works holds the presidency of a court.
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Against Ctesiphon. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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