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You hear the
law, Athenians, and you understand that it enables the deserving to retain their
rewards, and those who are judged otherwise to be deprived of any privilege they
have unjustly secured; for the future everything is left in your hands, as is
right, to grant or to withhold. Now I do not think that Leptines will deny that
this law is sound and just, or, if he does, that he will be able to prove it.
But perhaps he will try to lead you astray by repeating what he said before the
junior archons.1 For he alleged that
the publication of this amended law was a mere trick, and that should his own
law be repealed, this one would never be passed.
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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