Lysias, Against Nicomachus, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 5

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[5] Everyone else, with each new presidency,¹ renders an account of his office; but you, Nicomachus, have not deigned to show your accounts for as much as four years; you, alone of the citizens, claim licence to hold office for a lengthy period, without either submitting to an audit, or obeying the decrees, or respecting the laws: you insert this, and erase that, and carry insolence to such a pitch that you regard the State’s property as yours, who are yourself its slave!

Against Nicomachus. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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[5] ἀλλʼ οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι τῆς αὑτῶν ἀρχῆς κατὰ πρυτανείαν λόγον ἀποφέρουσι,¹ σὺ δέ, ὦ Νικόμαχε, οὐδὲ τεττάρων ἐτῶν ἠξίωσας ἐγγράψαι, ἀλλὰ μόνῳ σοὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἐξεῖναι νομίζεις ἄρχειν πολὺν χρόνον, καὶ μήτε εὐθύνας διδόναι μήτε τοῖς ψηφίσμασι πείθεσθαι μήτε τῶν νόμων φροντίζειν, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἐγγράφεις τὰ δʼ ἐξαλείφεις, καὶ εἰς τοῦτο ὕβρεως ἥκεις ὥστε σαυτοῦ νομίζεις εἶναι τὰ τῆς πόλεως,

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1. Every 35 days the presidency of the Council and the Assembly was taken over by a committee of 50 representatives of the 10 tribes. Magistrates on going out of office submitted their accounts to a board of 10 auditors ( λογισταί); appointed by the Council, and some minor officers changed with each presidency.

Lysias Against Nicomachus 5

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