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Therefore in the case of all the
choruses that are constituted, together with their chorus-masters, during the
days on which we meet in competition, these oracles make it clear that we wear
our crowns as your representatives, the winner as well as the one destined to be
last of all; it is not until the day of the prize-giving that the victor
receives his own special crown. If, then, a man commits a malicious assault on
any member or master of these choruses, especially during the actual contest in
the sacred precinct of the god, can we deny that he is guilty of impiety?
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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