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As it was, he did not adopt
this course, by which he might have done honor to the people, nor did he work
off his high spirits in this way. No; I was his target, I who in my madness, men
of Athens,—for it may be
madness to engage in something beyond one's power perhaps in my ambition,
volunteered for chorus-master. He harassed me with a persecution so undisguised
and so brutal that neither the sacred costumes nor the chorus nor at last even
my own person was safe from his hands.
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