For the council which formerly commanded confidence is being discredited by you, who claim to be the people's man, though it is a body to which the people gave in trust the protection of their lives, to whose charge they have often committed their constitution and democracy, a council which, destined though you were to malign it, has safeguarded your life." Dinarchus. Against Demosthenes. Book 1. Section 9.
Image: Roman soldier wearing cuirass originally identified as Caligula but in fact Agrippa Postumous Flavian epoque 69 - 96 CE Marble photographed at The Louvre in Paris, France.
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