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In all these things, then, he is
shown to have given false testimony, and to have given it contrary to law; but I
wish to prove this further fact, that our father did not make a will, and could
not legally make one. For, if anyone should ask you in accordance with what laws
we should live as citizens, you would of course answer, the established laws.
But look you, the laws ordain, “nor shall it be permitted to enact a
law applying to an individual, unless the same law applies also to all the
Athenians.”
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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