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Therefore his contemporaries not only
granted him immunity, but also set up his statue in bronze—the first
man so honored since Harmodius and Aristogiton. For they felt that he too, in
breaking up the empire of the Lacedaemonians, had ended no insignificant
tyranny. In order, then, that you may give a closer attention to my words, the
clerk shall read the actual decrees which you then passed in favor of Conon. Read them.“
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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