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This man,
then, is so impious, so abandoned, so ready to say or do anything, without
stopping for a moment to ask whether it is true or false, whether it touches an
enemy or a friend, or any such question, that after accusing me of murder and
bringing that grave charge against me, he suffered me to conduct initiatory
rites and sacrifices for the Council, and to inaugurate the victims on behalf of
you and all the State;
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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