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Such, gentlemen
of the jury, is the decree passed by you in favor of the Corinthians who were
exiled on your account. But think! If one who knew those critical
times—whether as an eye-witness or hearing the story from one who
knew—if he should hear this law which revokes the gifts that were then
bestowed, how he would denounce the baseness of us who made the
law—and who were so generous and obliging when our need was pressing,
but when we have satisfied all our hopes, are so thankless and churlish that we
have robbed men of the rewards they enjoy, and have made a law that hereafter
no, such rewards should be bestowed!
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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