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But you, men of Athens, have grown so extremely
good-natured and pliable, that, with those examples ever before you, you do not
imitate them, and Androtion is the repairer of your processional plate.
Androtion! Gracious Heavens! Do you think impiety could go further than that? I
hold that the man who is to enter the sacred places, to lay hands on the vessels
of lustration and the sacrificial baskets, and to become the director of divine
worship, ought not to be pure for a prescribed number of days only; his whole
life should have been kept pure of the habits that have polluted the life of
Androtion.
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