the Council-chamber
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the Council Chamber
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Against Leocrates (Greek)
Nevertheless I want also to remind you of the pillar in the Council Chamber which commemorates traitors and enemies of democracy.
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On the Choreutes
The meeting hall of the Athenian Council, containing shrines of Zeus the Councillor and Athena the Councillor, where the defendant served and was seen amicably conversing with his accuser Philocrates.
The crowning point was reached in the Council-chamber in front of the Council—heavens, to think of it!
But the prosecution, who were perfectly familiar with the laws concerned and could see that I was a member of the Council and used the Council-chamber —why, in that very chamber itself stands a shrine of Zeus the Councillor and Athena the Councillor, where members offer prayers as they enter;
Against Leocrates
The Athenian Bouleuterion, where the pillar recording the decree and oath against tyranny and treason was erected.
Nevertheless I want also to remind you of the pillar in the Council Chamber which commemorates traitors and enemies of democracy.
For they established it by decree and oath that anyone who found a person aspiring to tyranny or attempting to betray the city or overthrow the democracy should be guiltless if he killed him.