NOTES, OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.

34 His harangue for it is still extant: περι Συμμοριας.

35 Plutarchus in vita decem oratorum. Demosthenes gives a different account of this law. (Contra Aristogiton, Orat. II.) He says that its purport was to render the ατιμοι επιτιμοι, or to restore the privilege of bearing offices to those who had been declared incapable. Perhaps these were both clauses of the same law.

36 The senate of the Bean was only a less numerous mob chosen by lot from among the people, and their authority was not great.

37 In Ctesiphontem. It is remarkable that the first step after the dissolution of the Democracy by Critias and the Thirty was to annul the γραφη παρανομων, as we learn from Demosthenes κατα Τιμοκ. The orator in this oration gives us the words of the law establishing the γραφη παρανομων, p. 297, ex edit. Aldi. And he accounts for it from the same principles we here reason upon.

38 Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour, part 3, § 2.