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But you,
men of Athens, have grown so
extremely good-natured and pliable, that, with those examples ever before you,
you do not imitate them,—and Androtion is the repairer of your
processional plate. Androtion! Gracious Heavens! Do you think impiety could go
further than that? I hold that the man who is to enter the holy places, to lay
hands on the vessels of lustration and the sacrificial baskets, and to become
the director of divine worship, ought not to be pure for a prescribed number of
days only his whole life should have been kept pure of the habits that have
polluted the life of Androtion.
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