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And then again, with regard to what
he will say about leaving their honors to those who have received them, some
would have a perfectly plain and straightforward answer, when they claim their
right to all their rewards, because they were granted for the same service, but
the others will reply that the man who says that he leaves them anything is
mocking them.1 For if a man has
been thought to deserve immunity and has received that from you as his sole
reward, be he foreigner or citizen, what reward has he left, Leptines, if that
is taken from him? None whatever! Then you have no right to rob some because you
arraign the worthlessness of the others, or to rob one class of their sole
reward because you say that you are going to leave the other class something.
1 "Some" have received other rewards together with immunity; "the others" immunity alone.
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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