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If you are justified in praising Solon and Draco, although
you can credit neither of them with any public service except that they enacted
beneficial and well-conceived statutes, it is surely right that you should visit
men whose enactments are contrary to the spirit of those lawgivers with
indignation and chastisement. But as to Timocrates I know that he brought in
this law chiefly for his private advantage, because he felt that many of his
political acts in your city deserve imprisonment.
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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