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and yet, when you had
honored him with the office of ambassador, robbed the Goddess at Athens of her tithe of the plunder he took
from your enemies? Was it not he who, being appointed treasurer at the
Acropolis, stole from that place those prizes of victory which our ancestors
carried off from the barbarians, the throne with silver feet, and Mardonius's
scimitar, which weighed three hundred darics? These exploits, however, are so
celebrated that they are known to everybody. But in everything else is he not a
man of violence? Aye, he has no equal for that.
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