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Would you not have acted absurdly and preposterously
if today, when the power is in your own hands, you should preclude yourselves
from doing what you enjoin, or rather require, the gods to do on your behalf; if
you should yourselves release a man whom you have implored them to extirpate
along with his household and his kindred? Never! Leave the undetected sinner to
the justice of the gods; but about the sinner whom you have caught yourselves,
lay no further injunctions on them.
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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