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In our own city, without ourselves having committed any
wrong, or having had judgement rendered against us in their favor, we have been
robbed of our own possessions by these men who are Phaselites, just as if rights
of reprisal had been given to Phaselites against Athenians.1 For when
they refuse to pay back what they received, what other name can one give to such
people, than that they take by force the goods of others? For my own part, I
have never heard of a more abominable act than that which these men have
committed in relation to us, and that, too, while admitting that they received
the money from us.
1 On the right of reprisal, cf. Dem. 35.13 above, and see Smith, Dictionary of Antiquities, art. “Sylae.”
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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