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You must magnify the Goddess of Order who loves what is
right and preserves every city and every land; and before you cast your votes,
each juryman must reflect that he is being watched by hallowed and inexorable
Justice, who, as Orpheus, that prophet of our most sacred mysteries, tells us,
sits beside the throne of Zeus and oversees all the works of men. Each must keep
watch and ward lest he shame that goddess, from whom everyone that is chosen by
lot derives his name of juror, because he has this day received a sacred trust
from the laws, from the constitution, from the fatherland,—the duty of
guarding all that is fair and right and beneficial in our city.
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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