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Such, I say, were the inscriptions on the
crowns. 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 our temples contain gold plate marked
with the name of a man whom the laws forbid to enter those temples in person
because of his filthy life. Just like the old inscriptions,—Is it
not?—and the same incentive to your ambitions!
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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