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Wherefore, be of good
courage, O judges, and lay aside your alarm, if indeed you feel any; for if
ever you had to decide about good and brave men, and about citizens who had
deserved well of their country, if ever an opportunity was given to chosen
men of the most honourable ranks to show by their deeds and resolutions that
disposition towards brave and good citizens which they had often declared by
their looks and by their words, all that power you now have, when you are to
determine whether we who have always been wholly devoted to your authority
are to be miserable, and to mourn for ever, or whether, having been long
harassed by the most abandoned citizens, we shall at length he reprieved and
set up again by you, your loyalty, your virtue, and your wisdom.
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