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But since, on the contrary, he took
seventeen cities, and captured seventy ships and three thousand prisoners, and
paid into the treasury a hundred and ten talents, and set up so many trophies,
in that case shall not his rewards for these services stand good? Moreover,
Athenians, it will be seen that Chabrias during his lifetime did everything in
your behalf, and that he met death itself in no other service; so that for this,
as well as for all that he did in his life, you ought to show yourselves
generously disposed to his son.
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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