36. Therefore, since these things are not able to be contradicted, it is necessary for you to be calm and to do nothing rash.
37. For you have brought forward these men, who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers against your goddess.
38. But if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a case against anyone, they can convene in the courts, and there are proconsuls. Let them accuse one another.
39. But if you would inquire about other things, this can be decided in a lawful assembly.
40. For now we are in peril of being convicted of sedition over today's events, since there is no one guilty (against whom we are able to provide evidence) in this gathering." And when he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.