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The accusation was made by Aristophon, and you were
the judges; and, if the anger you felt had been equal to their crime, nothing
could have prevented their being put to death. My opponents, although they are
aware that they have done just what those others did, instead of shuddering
before you at the thought of what they ought to suffer, make speeches attacking
others, and demand that they themselves be crowned. And yet, consider what would
be thought of your way of reaching decisions, if you are seen to have condemned
some persons to death and to have crowned others for the same cause!
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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