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It
seems to me, Athenians, that Leptines—and pray, be not angry,1
for I am not going to say anything offensive about you—Leptines has
either never read Solon's laws or else does not understand them. For if Solon
made a law that every man could grant his property to whomsoever he pleased, in
default of legitimate offspring, not with the object of depriving the next of
kin of their rights of consanguinity, but that by making the prize open to all
he might excite a rivalry in doing good one to another;
1 He addresses himself directly to Leptines.
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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