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You cannot but know how all these mercenary officers seize upon free Hellenic
cities, and try to dominate them. They march about through country after country
as the common enemies, if the truth must be told, of every man whose wish is to
reside constitutionally and as a free man in his own fatherland. Men of
Athens, is it creditable to you,
is it dignified, that you should be known to have carried a measure for the
protection of a fellow who, to satisfy his greed, is ready to fall foul of
anybody who comes his way, and to have given notice of expulsion from your
alliance to the defenders of their own independence?
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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