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Stop there. The
laws now in force contain this provision—a capital one, men of
Athens, and
unambiguous—that "all rewards granted by the people shall be valid."
Equitable too, by all the powers! So Leptines should not have proposed his own
law until he had indicted and repealed this. As it is, neglecting proof of his
own violation of the law, he nevertheless proceeded to legislate, in face of the
fact that another law proclaims his law indictable for this very offence,
namely, for contradicting previous legislation. Here is the very law in
question.“
Law
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