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This
is no small or incidental matter that you are deciding today; the question at
issue is the safety of the whole city and also bribery, an evil habit and a
practice which is harmful to you and has always brought men to ruin. If you do
everything in your power to rid the city of this vice and to suppress those who
gladly take bribes against you, we shall be saved, with Heaven's consent. But if
you allow the orators to sell you, you will stand by and see them wreck the
city.
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