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So even the man who
in due course of law summons a member of a chorus will not escape a fine. And
shall not he be punished who in contempt of all the laws thus publicly strikes
the master of a chorus? Surely it is useless for your laws to be thus well and
humanely framed for the protection of the humbler citizen, if those who disobey
and flout them are not to incur the resentment of you who are, for the time
being, entrusted with their administration.
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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