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9 He has carried audacity to such a pitch that he actually refers to the law we have made regarding him as one that has been abolished,A decree of Isotimides excluded from the market-place and the temples those impious persons who had obtained immunity by laying information against others. and claims liberty henceforth to enter the market-place and the templeseven today in the Council House of the Athenians.

10 Yet Pericles, they say, advised you once that in dealing with impious persons you should enforce against them not only the written but the unwritten laws also, which the EumolpidaeThe hereditary priests of Eleusis, who pronounced orally on cases of conscience, etc., and were the repositories of traditional, as distance from codified, custom. follow in their exposition, and which no one has yet had the authority to abolish or the audacity to gainsay,—laws whose very author is unknown: he judged that they would thus pay the penalty, not merely to men, but also to the gods.