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—And yet this fellow was so
self-confident,—as though he could never be brought to justice for his
doings,—that, with ten colleagues in office, he alone joined Androtion
in making his return. Yes indeed; gratuitously and from purely unselfish
motives, Timocrates provokes your hostility, introducing laws that contradict
every statute, and that even, to crown all, contradict a statute of his own
making! By our Lady, I think that even you must recognize his generosity!
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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