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Again, thanks to his continual evasions, he has at
last been brought to trial at the very moment when, for the sake of the future
if for no other reason, you cannot possibly, or consistently with your own
security, allow a man so steeped in corruption to go scot-free; for, while it is
always your duty, men of Athens, to
abhor and to chastise traitors and bribe-mongers, a conviction at this crisis
will be peculiarly seasonable and profitable to all mankind.
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