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Men of Athens, this law, so dishonorable, so unsound, so suggestive of
envy and spite and—I spare you the rest. Those are the sort of things
that the framer of the law seems to favor, but you must not imitate them nor
display sentiments unworthy of yourselves. I ask you in Heaven's name, what
should we all most earnestly deprecate? What do all our laws most carefully
guard against? What but those vengeful murders against which our specially
appointed protector is the Council of the Areopagus?
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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