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The law is thus
severe. But pray ponder in your minds, men of the jury, what you must imagine us
to have suffered in the past from these men and the insolence of these men, when
they have shown contempt toward you, so great a people, and have done what the
laws expressly forbid their doing, in thus contemptuously laying waste the farms
which Hagnias left. The law forbids anyone to root up any of these things even
out of his own land inherited from his fathers. Much indeed do these men care
either about obedience to your laws or the saving of the house of Hagnias from
extinction!
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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