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Does anyone say that this inscription has
been set up just anywhere? No; although the whole of our citadel is a holy
place, and although its area is so large, the inscription stands at the right
hand beside the great brazen Athene which was dedicated by the state as a
memorial of victory in the Persian war, at the expense of the Greeks. In those
days, therefore, justice was so venerable, and the punishment of these crimes so
meritorious, that the retribution of such offenders was honored with the same
position as Pallas Athene's own prize of victory. Today we have
instead—mockery, impunity, dishonor, unless you restrain the licence
of these men.
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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