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Therefore, Athenians, do not
imagine that, in assessing the penalty, you are merely going to judge of the
crimes which Philocles has actually committed; you will bear in mind those which
he would have committed, had it been in his power. Thank the gods, now that you
know the defendant's character, that you have suffered no more grievous harm at
his hands, and punish him as your duty and his baseness demand.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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