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These sacred and holy rites for the
celebration of which your ancestors provided so well and so magnificently, it is
your duty, men of Athens, to maintain with devotion, and likewise to punish
those who insolently defy your laws and have been guilty of shameless impiety
toward the gods; and this for two reasons: first, that they may pay the penalty
for their crimes; and, secondly, that others may take warning, and may fear to
commit any sin against the gods and against the state.
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