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In testing these, if the actions of Lycurgus seem honest and
public-spirited and inspired by loyalty, then it is justice that his sons should not only
meet with no harm at your hands, but with all the benefits imaginable; yet if his actions
seem quite the opposite, he ought to have been punished while he lived, and these children
should not thus incur your anger on the ground of charges someone prefers against the
father, because for all men death is an end of responsibility for all their offences.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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