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Men also grow mild towards those whom they pity1; and if an offender has suffered greater evil than those who
are angry would have inflicted, for they have an idea that they have as it were
obtained reparation.
1 Another reading is ἐὰν ἕλωσι, “if they have convicted him.” This is adopted by Roemer, who refers to Plat. Rep. 558a, where, in speaking of the freedom allowed to all who live under a democracy, it is remarked that, even if a man is convicted by a court of justice, he takes no heed of the sentence, which is very often not enforced.
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