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But suppose again （for we must examine every phase
of the matter）, one or the other of us persuades the other, in case he
is chosen, to yield the office to him, and so obtains the appointment? What is
this but one man drawing lots with two tablets? Shall it, then, be permitted us
to do with impunity a thing for which the law appoints the penalty of death?
“Why, certainly, for we should not do it,” you may say. I
know that, at least so far as I am concerned; but it is not right that some
persons should even be liable to this penalty, when they need not be.
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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