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It is also
strange if anyone of you is ignorant that for nothing that is honorable or
useful or worthy of our city is he of any use. May Zeus and all the gods grant
that Athens may never be so short of
real men that any honorable task should have to be performed by an Aristogeiton!
We ought to pray Heaven that the occasion may never arise for which such a
monster could be found useful. But should it possibly arise, it would be a
greater blessing for the city that those who wish for its fall should lack the
instrument of their designs than that this fellow should be released and ready
to their hand.
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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