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You, men of Athens, acquit men who have committed the gravest crimes and
are clearly proved guilty, if they treat you to one or two pleasantries, or if a
few advocates chosen from their own tribe ask you to be so good. If ever you do
bring them in guilty, you assess the penalty at five-and-twenty drachmas. In
those old times the State was wealthy and splendid, but in private life no man
held his head higher than the multitude.
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