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[14] But why should I be the man to make suggestions about stealing? For, as I hear, Cheirisophus, you Lacedaemonians, at least those among you who belong to the peers,1 practise stealing even from childhood, and count it not disgraceful but honourable to steal anything that the law does not prevent you from taking.

1 The Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.

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