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How will you make your way to the Sanctuary of the
Mother-goddess,1 if you wish to do so? For surely
you will never go individually to consult the laws as if they were still valid,
unless you have now collectively confirmed them before you depart. How on the
first of each month will you climb the Acropolis and pray for blessings on the
State and on yourselves, when the defendant and his worthy father are registered
there,2 and you have given your verdict clean against your
oaths and the documents there preserved?
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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