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129 I marvel that you cannot see at once that no class is so inimical to the people as our depraved orators and demagogues. For, as if your other misfortunes were not enough, their chief desire is that you should be in want of your daily necessities, observing that those who are able to manage their affairs from their private incomes are on the side of the commonwealth and of our best counsellors,

130 whereas those who live off the law-courts and the assembliesThree obols a day were paid for the attendance of jury-men and of members of the General Assembly. See Isoc. 7.24, 54, and notes; Isoc. 15.152. and the doles derived from them are constrained by their need to be subservient to the sycophants and are deeply grateful for the impeachments and the indictmentsSee Isoc. 15.314, note. and the other sharp practices which are due to the sycophants.

131 Wherefore these men would be most happy to see all of our citizens reduced to the condition of helplessness in which they themselves are powerful.Cf. Isoc. 15.241. And the greatest proof of this is that they do not consider by what means they may provide a livelihood for those who are in need, but rather how they may reduce those who are thought to possess some wealth to the level of those who are in poverty.

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