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Yet we need not restrict ourselves
to bygone history, or rely upon those ancient precedents in our appeal to
retributive justice. Within your own lifetime, in the time of the generation now
living, not a few men have been tried and condemned. Passing by other instances,
let me recall to your memory one or two men who have been punished by death
after an embassy far less mischievous to the city. Please take and read this
decree.“
Decree
”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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