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Such, in consequence, is the state of our
public affairs that if anyone read out your resolutions and then went on to
describe your performances, not a soul would believe that the same men were
responsible for the one and for the other. Take for instance the decrees that
you passed against the accursed Megarians,1 when they appropriated the sacred demesne, that you should
march out and prevent it and forbid it; in favour of the Phliasians, when they
were exiled the other day, that you should help them and not give them up to
their murderers, and should call for volunteers from the Peloponnese.
1 Neither this nor the following allusion can be determined with certainty.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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