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On this principle, what a gross
insult it would be to Chabrias, if politicians of that stamp, not content with
making his slave, Lycidas, a Friend of your State, should make the slave an
excuse for taking back rewards conferred on the master, and that on a false
plea! For neither Lycidas nor anyone else enjoys immunity as a Friend of the
State, unless such immurity has been expressly conferred by the people. The men
in question have not received it; I defy the defendants to prove it. If they
have the effrontery to assert it, they will be acting dishonorably.
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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