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Do not overthrow this
other man, now flourishing in the prime of life, now that his virtue has
just taken firm root, as it were by some whirlwind or sudden tempest.
Preserve the son for the father, the father for the son, lest you should
appear either to have despised the old age of a man almost in despair, or on
the other hand not only to have abstained from cherishing, but even to have
struck down and crushed, a youth pregnant with the greatest promise. And if
you do preserve him to yourselves, to his own relations, and to the
republic, you will have him dedicated, devoted, and wholly bound to you and
to your children, and you will enjoy, O judges, in the greatest possible
degree, the abundant and lasting fruits of all his exertions and labours.
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