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Those who would exact from him an
adequate punishment for his misdeeds must not let their indignation be checked
by the reflection that I alone am concerned, but must base the penalty on the
ground that all alike are victims of the same wrong—the laws, the
gods, the city of Athens; and they
must look upon those who support him and are marshalled in his defence as
something more than mere advocates, as men who set the seal of their approval to
his acts.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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