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 1 Intro|          of his duty is an evil. Anytus is quite right in saying
 2 Intro|       more lofty and commanding. Anytus proposes death as the penalty:
 3 Intro|        know whether death, which Anytus proposes, is a good or an
 4 Intro|        almost equally hateful to Anytus and Meletus. Yet incidentally
 5 Intro|  Dialogues of an attempt to make Anytus or Meletus personally odious
 6 Text |      more afraid of them than of Anytus and his associates, who
 7 Text |      three accusers, Meletus and Anytus and Lycon, have set upon
 8 Text |          on behalf of the poets; Anytus, on behalf of the craftsmen
 9 Text | assuredly it is; whether you and Anytus say yes or no. Happy indeed
10 Text |  destroyed;—not Meletus, nor yet Anytus, but the envy and detraction
11 Text |         and are not convinced by Anytus, who said that since I had
12 Text |       this time we will not mind Anytus, and you shall be let off,
13 Text |      Athens, I say to you, do as Anytus bids or not as Anytus bids,
14 Text |         as Anytus bids or not as Anytus bids, and either acquit
15 Text |          me, not Meletus nor yet Anytus—they cannot, for a bad man
16 Text |      himself. I do not deny that Anytus may, perhaps, kill him,
17 Text |         easily strike me dead as Anytus advises, and then you would
18 Text |          kindred, as Meletus and Anytus call me; not the corrupted
19 Text |        without the assistance of Anytus and Lycon, any one may see