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The one-eyed man was much perturbed by
the threat, and, reflecting that his life would not be worth keeping after such
a loss as that, he plucked up courage, as we are told, to introduce a law that
whosoever struck out the eye of a man who had only one, should submit to the
loss of both his own eyes, in order that both might suffer the same affliction.
And that, according to the story, is the only new statute adopted by the
Locrians for more than two hundred years.
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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