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Voluntary
gifts were first introduced at Athens for the expedition to Euboea. Meidias was not one of those volunteers, but I was, and
my colleague was Philinus, the son of Nicostratus. There was a second call
subsequently for Olynthus. Meidias
was not one of those volunteers either. Yet surely the public-spirited man ought
to be found at his post on every occasion. We have now these voluntary gifts for
the third time, and this time he did make an offer. But how? Though present in
the Council when the gifts were being received, he made no offer then.
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