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When the democrats of Oreus saw this,
instead of rescuing him and knocking the others on the head, they showed no
resentment against them and gloated over Euphraeus, saying that he deserved all
he had got. Then having all the liberty of action they desired, they intrigued
for the capture of the city and prepared to carry out their plot, while any of
the common folk who saw what they were at were terrorized into silence, having
the fate of Euphraeus before their eyes. And so abject was their condition that,
with this danger looming ahead, no one dared to breathe a syllable until the
enemy, having completed their preparations, were approaching the gates; and then
some were for defence, the others for surrender.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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