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<dd><i>Τοὐλεύθερον δ᾽ ἐκεῖνο, τίς θέλει πόλει</i></dd>
<dd><i>Χρηστόν τι βούλευμ᾽ ἐς μέσον φέρειν ἔχων.</i></dd>
<dd><i>Καὶ ταῦθ᾽ ὁ χρῄζων, λαμπρός ἐσθ᾽, ὁ μὴ θέλων</i></dd>
<dd><i>Σιγᾷ, τί τούτων ἔστ᾽ ἰσαίτερον πόλει;</i></dd>
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<dd><i>This is true liberty, when free-born persons,</i></dd>
<dd><i>Having to advise the public, may speak free,</i></dd>
<dd><i>Which s/he who can, and will, deserves high praise;</i></dd>
<dd><i>Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace:</i></dd>
<dd><i>What can be juster in a state than this?</i></dd>
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From AREOPAGITICA; A SPEECH OF Mr. JOHN MILTON For the Liberty of
Unlicens'd PRINTING, To the Parliament of ENGLAND.<br>
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Pulbished this day in 1644 at the height of the English Civil War,
it is titled after a speech of the Athenian orator Isocrates. Milton
argues against Parliaments's Licensing Order of 1643, noting that
such censorship had never been a part of classical Greek and Roman
society. It was distributed via pamphlet, defying the same
publication ban that Milton argued against. <br>
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