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Will you, the guardians of democracy
and law, spare a man who has behaved like this; you to whom the fortune of lot
has entrusted <the protection>1 of the people by means of
the judgement you will give? You are the supreme court of justice in the city.
Will you acquit a man guilty of taking bribes and every other crime, who, as I
said just now, is unique among criminals in that he has been reported not once
merely but three times and might already have been rightly made liable three
times to the death penalty by his own decree.
1 Some such meaning seems called for as is presumed by Reiske, but the actual Greek words supplied by him make the future participle δικάσοντας rather awkward.
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