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For surely no one dreams that he will tolerate
the cancelling of your gifts to him, and let his own gifts to you stand good. So
to the many disadvantages that this law will obviously entail upon you, may be
added the immediate loss of part of your resources. In view of this, are you
still considering whether you ought to erase it from the statute-book? Have you
not made up your minds long ago? Take and read them the decrees touching Leucon.
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Decrees
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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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