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They were tokens of emulation
and honorable ambition; but now they have vanished with the destruction of the
crowns, and the saucers which that lewd fellow has had made in their place bear
the inscription, “Made by direction of Androtion.” And so
the name of a man whom the laws forbid to enter our temples in person because of
his prostitution, has been inscribed on the cups in those temples. Just like the
old inscriptions, is it not? and an equal incentive to ambition?
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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