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but that, while the people were ready to grant that the Aenians should pay the
contribution which they had agreed upon with the general Chares, this abominable
fellow had taken upon himself to carry on the same practices as the traitor
Charinus—learning all this, I say, they took the course which
necessity forced upon them, and chose the least of the evils before them. Yet
what must we assume their sufferings at the hands of those who were preferring
indictments here to have been, when it seemed to the Aenians preferable to
revolt from us, to receive a garrison, and to be subject to barbarians? But you
alone, I think, are able to endure the wickedness of these men, you alone, and
no one besides among all the Greeks!
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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