I therefore, sirs, do not regard this requital as having been exacted in my own private interest, but in that of the whole city. For those who behave in that way, when they see the sort of reward that is in store for such transgressions, will be less inclined to trespass against their neighbors, if they see that you also take the same view.
On the Murder of Eratosthenes. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.
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