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What follows,
men of Athens? Such being the facts,
will you, the descendants of these men, some of whom are still living, be
content that Epicrates, the champion of democracy, the hero of the march from
Peiraeus, should have been degraded and punished; that more recently
Thrasybulus, a son of Thrasybulus the great democrat, who restored free
government from Phyle, should have
paid a fine of ten talents that even a descendant of Harmodius and of the
greatest of all your benefactors, the men to whom, in requital of their glorious
deeds, you have allotted by statute a share of your libations and
drink-offerings in every temple and at every public service, whom, in hymns and
in worship, you treat as the equals of gods and demigods,—
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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