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The clerk shall therefore read to you the laws that are in force to secure orderly conductBy orderly conduct Aeschines means orderly conduct in private life. The editor who composed (or compiled) the law given in Aeschin. 1.35 understood him to be speaking of conduct on the platform. The law that Aeschines caused to be read would contain the prohibitions that he has been discussing in Aeschin. 1.28-32. on the part of our public men. For the law that introduced the presidency of a tribeThe new law described in Aeschin. 1.33. has been attacked in the courts by Timarchus here, in conspiracy with other men like himself, as being inexpedient, their object being to have license to speak, as well as to behave, as they choose.
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