quidam Athenis universo populo invisus, causam apud eum capitali crimine dicturus, maximum honorem subito petere coepit, non quod speraret se illum consequi posse, sed ut haberent homines ubi procursum irae, qui acerrimus esse solet, effunderent.
A certain person in Athens, who was universally disliked, was to plead his case before the people on a capital charge. He suddenly set up as a candidate for a very high office, not because he hoped he could get it, but to give people a means of discharging their first rush of anger, which is generally the most violent.
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