But who considered it as such?
Not the judges who condemned the guardians.

The Athenian courts of justice were not the purest in the world; but their decisions were at least as likely to be just as the abuse of a deadly enemy.

Mr Mitford refers for confirmation of his statement to Aeschines and Plutarch.

Aeschines by no means bears him out; and Plutarch directly contradicts him.

"Not long after," says Mr Mitford, "he took blows publicly in the theater" (I preserve the orthography, if it can be so called, of this historian) "from a petulant youth of rank, named Meidias." Here are two disgraceful mistakes.