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Well, men of Athens, you hold in your power today this
man, who has not done that deed in secret, but after beguiling and deceiving you
has openly enacted a law that does not merely throw open but demolishes the
prison, and that includes in that destruction the courts of justice as well. For
of what use are either courts or prisons, if persons sentenced to imprisonment
are set free, and if you are to get no benefit from any such sentence
henceforward?
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