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will you be content that all these men should have
been subjected to the inexorable penalty of law; that they should find no succor
in mercy or compassion, in weeping children bearing honored names, or in any
other plea? And then, when you have in your power a son of Atrometus the
dominie, and of Glaucothea, the fuglewoman of those bacchanalian routs for which
another priestess1 suffered death, will
you release the son of such parents, a man who has never been of the slightest
use to the commonwealth, neither he, nor his father, nor any member of his
precious family?
1 According to Ulpian her name was Nino and her crime was mixing a love-potion.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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