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Now here is Aristogeiton, who has so far
outstripped all men in wickedness that his punishments have not disciplined him
and he is once more detected in the same illegal and rapacious acts. Also he is
the more deserving of your anger now than before, inasmuch as previously it was
only by moving decrees that he ventured to transgress the laws, but now he
transgresses them in every possible way—by accusations, by public
speeches, by calumnies, by demanding the death penalty, by impeaching and
maligning the fully qualified citizens, when he himself is a state-debtor. For
nothing is more abominable than that.
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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