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“I earnestly beg you,” he went
on, “to bestow them on me. At the same time I wish you to understand
what sort of gift you will be giving me, if you do give it. It will bring me no
gain, for I shall provide them with dowries and give them in marriage; and I
shall not permit them to suffer any treatment unworthy of myself or of their
father.” It is said that, when the other guests heard this speech,
there was such an outburst of applause and approval that Philip was strongly
moved, and granted the boon. And yet Apollophanes was one of the men who had
slain Philip's own brother Alexander.
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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