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The Consonants at Law Sigma Vs. Tau, in the Court of the Seven Vowels (5-6)

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one has no right is the act of a law-breaker.

The man who first framed these laws for us, be he the islander Cadmus[*] or Nauplius’ son Palamedes(and some attribute this provision to Simonides), did not determine which of us should be first and which second solely by putting us in the order in which our places are now fixed, but they also decided the qualities and powers that each of us has. To you, jurors, they gave the greatest honour, because you can be sounded by yourselves; to the Semivowels they gave the next highest, because they need something put with them before they can be heard; and they prescribed that the last place of all should belong to nine letters which have no sound at all by themselves. [*] The Vowels should enforce these laws.

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