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But yet your ancestors, for all these services, would not
allow him to insult them. They made him a fugitive and an outlaw, and in the day
of Lacedaemonian power they endured the fortification of Decelea, the capture of
their fleet, and every kind of loss, because they deemed any involuntary
suffering more honorable than a voluntary submission to the tyranny of
insolence.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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