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Men of
Athens, is not the provision
that "all rewards granted by the people shall be valid" contradicted by the
clause that "no one shall be immune," no one, that is, of those to whom the
people has granted immunity? That is plain enough, at any rate. But it is not so
in the alternative law which my friend1 here proposes, and which confirms what you have granted,
and provides a fair ground of action against those who have imposed upon you, or
have subsequently injured you, or are generally undeserving; so that you will
thus prevent anyone you please from retaining his grant. Read the law.“
Law
”
1 Apsephion.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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