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Turn now to the decree
passed in honor of Chabrias. Just look and see; it must be somewhere there.1
There is one thing further that I want to say
about Chabrias. You, Athenians, in honoring Iphicrates, honored not only him but
also on his account Strabax and Polystratus; and again, when giving your reward
to Timotheus, you also for his sake rewarded Clearchus and some others with the
citizenship2;
1 This aside is intended to give an air of reality to the published speech. Editors well compare a similar trick in Cicero Verr. 2.4.3.
2 Iphicrates was honored for the defeat of the Spartan mora in the Corinthian War (390), Timotheus for his successful expedition to Corcyra after the battle of Naxos (376). Strabax was presumably a foreign mercenary; Polystratus is mentioned in Dem. 4.24, as a commander of Athenian mercenaries at Corinth. These last two were rewarded for services under the command of Iphicrates. Clearchus cannot be identified with certainty.
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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