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Then again there is Aristeides
of the tribe of Oeneis, who has had a similar misfortune. He is now an old man
and perhaps less useful in a chorus, but he was once chorus-leader for his
tribe. You know, of course, that if the leader is withdrawn, the rest of the
chorus is done for. But in spite of the keen rivalry of many of the
chorus-masters, not one of them looked at the possible advantage or ventured to
remove him or prevent him from performing. Since this involved laying hands on
him, and since he could not be cited before the Archon as if he were an alien
whom it was desired to eject, every man shrank from being seen as the personal
author of such an outrage.
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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