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Let us suppose that a
fate that has doubtless befallen others before now should befall
him—that he should withdraw from Thrace and come and live somewhere in a civilized community;
and that, though no longer enjoying the licence under which he now commits many
illegalities, he should be driven by his habits and his lusts to attempt the
sort of behavior I have mentioned, will not a man be obliged to allow himself to
be insulted by Charidemus in silence? It will not be safe to put him to death,
nor, by reason of this decree, to obtain the satisfaction provided by law.
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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