Collectors of taxes
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collectors of taxes · the collectors
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Letters (Greek)
We do not cease, at every synod, to protest, and privately in our meetings to discourse upon the same things — namely, that oaths over the public payments should not be imposed by the collectors upon the country people.
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Letters
Officials who collect public dues and impose oaths on the country people to extract payment.
We do not cease, at every synod, to protest, and privately in our meetings to discourse upon the same things — namely, that oaths over the public payments should not be imposed by the collectors upon the country people.
Against Aristogeiton I
Officials whose registers help establish Aristogeiton’s legal disqualification.
Debarred by every right that holds good in Athens, by the decisions of three tribunals, by the registers of the archons and of the collectors of taxes, by the indictment for wrongful entry in which you yourself are the plaintiff, curbed, I might almost say, by chains of steel, you wriggle and force your way through all and imagine that by weaving excuses and trumping up false charges you can overt …