[136]
Then there
is another precaution that you must take—to do nothing as a community
which you would shun as individuals. Not a man among you would take away from
another his own personal gifts, nor even dream of doing so. Then do not so in
your public capacity, but tell the official defenders1 of this law that
1 The advocates named in Dem. 20.146.
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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