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Now if
I had not been chorus-master, men of Athens, when I was thus maltreated by Meidias, it is only the
personal insult that one would have condemned; but under the circumstances I
think one would be justified in condemning also the impiety of the act. You
surely realize that all your choruses and hymns to the god are sanctioned, not
only by the regulations of the Dionysia, but also by the oracles, in all of
which, whether given at Delphi or at
Dodona, you will find a solemn
injunction to the State to set up dances after the ancestral custom, to fill the
streets with the savour of sacrifice, and to wear garlands.
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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