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Stephanus 36e
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εἶναι, καὶ ὁ μὲν τροφῆς οὐδὲν δεῖται, ἐγὼ δὲ δέομαι. εἰ οὖν δεῖ με κατὰ τὸ δίκαιον τῆς ἀξίας τιμᾶσθαι, τούτου
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happy in reality; and he has no need of maintenance, whereas I do. If, then, I must assess my penalty justly according to what I deserve, this is what
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free meals in the Prytaneum.Perhaps, in saying this, I seem to you to be speaking in the same arrogant spirit as when I spoke about pity and supplication. But that is not the case, men of Athens. Rather, the situation is this: I am convinced that I have never intentionally wronged any human being, but I cannot persuade you of this, because we have had only a short time to discuss the matter with one another. For I believe that if you had a law, as other peoples do, requiring trials involving death to last not one day