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What do you imagine is his motive in outraging you
now—I think no other term describes his conduct—or why is it
that, in deceiving the others, he at least confers benefits upon them, but in
your case he is already resorting to threats? For example, the Thessalians were
beguiled by his generosity into their present state of servitude; no words can
describe how he formerly deceived the miserable Olynthians by his gift of
Potidaea and many other places;
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