GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng6:6.14.1 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng6:6.14.1

And you, Prytanis, if you think it your duty to care for the commonwealth, and if you wish to show yourself a good citizen, put the question to the vote, and take a second time the opinions of the Athenians. If you are afraid to move the question again, consider that a violation of the law cannot carry any prejudice with so many abettors, that you will be the physician of your misguided city, and that the virtue of men in office is briefly this, to do their country as much good as they can, or in any case no harm that they can avoid.’