[64]
I summon as my witnesses, Athenians, the awful goddesses and
their abode, the heroes of the land, Athena Polias, and those other gods who
have obtained our city and countryside as their home, to show that when the
people has consigned to you for punishment one who, against his country's
interests, has accepted a part of the <imported money>,1 one who has defiled and ruined
the city's prosperity and betrayed that country which he claimed to have
fortified by his diplomacy,2
1 The sense of this passage is clear, though the Greek wording leaves room for doubt.
2 An allusion to some words of Demosthenes in the speech on the Crown （Dem. 18.299）.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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