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That the law he has proposed
is contrary to the statutes just read, to those which I cited before, and, I may
almost say, to every law in Athens,
is now, I suppose, manifest to every one of you. I really wonder what he will
have the face to say about those statutes. He cannot show that his law does not
contradict the others; and he will not be able to convince you that he is a
simple layman who did not know what he was doing through lack of experience,
because for a long time past he has been celebrated for composing and
introducing laws at so much apiece. Moreover, there is another course that is
not open to him:
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