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Then if it was right that for them the
old-established laws should be operative, and that they should be punished in
accordance with the existing laws, can it be right that for the sake of
Androtion, Glaucetes, and Melanopus, a brand-new statute should be
made,—for men who have been found guilty and condemned by verdict in
pursuance of old-established laws, and who are declared to be detaining sacred
and public moneys? Will not Athens
be a laughing-stock if she is discovered enacting laws for the deliverance of
temple robbers?
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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