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For Epicerdes, as this decree then passed in his
honor declares, gave a hundred minae to our fellow-countrymen at that time
prisoners in Sicily under such
distressing circumstances,1 and thus he became the chief instrument in saving them
from all perishing of hunger. Afterwards, when you had rewarded him with
immunity, seeing that in the war2 just before the rule of the
Thirty the people were straitened for want of funds, he gave them a talent as a
freewill offering.
1 For the horrors endured by the 7000 Athenian captives, scorched by day and frozen by night in the deep stone-quarries of Syracuse, see Thuc. 7.87.
2 The third period of the Peloponnesian War, called the “Decelean” War (413-404) from the Spartan fortified post at Decelea in Attica.
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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