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When the question was discussed and some
were for ordering the city-party, who were the real borrowers, to repay, while
others claimed that the first sign of reconciliation should be the joint
settlement of the debt, they say that the people chose to pay their contribution
and bear their share of the loss, so that there should be no breach of the
agreement. On that occasion, men of Athens, to avoid a breach of faith, you consented to pay money
to those who had injured you, but now, when you might without any expense
requite your benefactors by repealing this law, will it not be strange if you
prefer to break your faith? I for one cannot approve of it.
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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