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[You may, then, mark three scandalous crimes
committed by these persons. They have robbed the Goddess of her crowns. They
have extinguished in the city that spirit of emulation that sprang from the
achievements which the crowns, while in being, commemorated. They have deprived
the donors of a great honor,—the credit of gratitude for benefits
received. After this long series of evil deeds they have grown so callous and so
audacious that they recall those crimes as admirable examples of their
administration, so that one of them expects you to acquit him for the sake of
the other, and the other sits by his side and does not sink into the ground for
shame at his conduct.]
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