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Again, men of Athens, consider those glorious and
enviable inscriptions that he has obliterated for all time, and the strange and
blasphemous inscriptions that he has written in their stead. You all, I suppose,
used to see the words written under the circlets of the crowns: “The
Allies to the Athenian People for valor and righteousness,” or
“The Allies to the Goddess of Athens, a prize of victory”; or, from the several
states of the alliance, “Such-and-such a City to the People by whom
they were delivered,” or, “The liberated
Euboeans,” for example, “crown the People”; or
again, “Conon from the
sea-fight with the Lacedaemonians.” Such, I say, were the inscriptions
of the crowns.
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