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For you must not imagine that the pillars standing
there are anything else than the covenants of all that you have received or
granted; and it will be made clear that Leucon observes them and is always eager
to benefit you, but that you have repudiated them while they still stand; and
that is a far worse offence than to pull them down1; for when men wish
to traduce our city, there will stand the pillars to witness to the truth of
their words.
1 Both nouns being feminine plural, Demosthenes is able to fuse completely the literal and metaphorical meanings.
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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