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Upon friends, if
they seem to have done something serious, one should impose the moderate penalty
of withdrawing from their friendship; vengeance and prosecution should be left
to their victims or their enemies. Yet in a man like Meidias this may be
condoned. But if it shall appear that he chatted familiarly under the same roof
with Aristarchus, as if he were perfectly innocent, and then uttered those
damning charges against him in order to involve me in a false accusation, does
he not deserve to be put to death ten times—no! ten thousand times
over?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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