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The men who betrayed Pydna and the other places to
Philip—what prompted them to injure us? Is it not obvious to everyone
that it was the reward which they calculated on receiving from Philip for their
services? Which, then, ought you to have chosen to do, Leptines? To induce our
enemies, if you can, to give up honoring those who become their benefactors on
the strength of injuries done to us, or to impose a law on us which takes away
some part of the rewards which our own benefactors are enjoying? I fancy the
former. But that I may not wander from the present point, take and read the
decrees passed in honor of the Thasians and the Byzantines.“
Decrees
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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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