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—But I hold that this plea would have been
rightly offered, if they had offered it on some occasion when an expedition in
relief of Cersobleptes and Charidemus had been proposed, and we were trying to
block it. But, as we have here no such occasion and no such proposal, but only
the argument of men trying to make Cersobleptes more powerful than he deserves
by means of an immunity received from you by his generals, I regard their action
as dangerous. It is not fair, men of Athens, that the pleas of men seeking deliverance should be
offered to you in justification of men whose object is the power to do you
wrong.
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