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For surely, Moerocles, we are not now going to exact ten talents from the
Melians1 in accordance with the
terms of your decree, because they gave harborage to the pirates, and yet suffer
this man to go free who has transgressed both your decree and the laws which
maintain our state. And shall we prevent from wrongdoing the islanders, against
whom we must man our ships in order to hold them to their duty, but you
abominable creatures, upon whom these jurymen should inflict the penalty
according to the laws, while they sit right here—shall we let you go?
You will not, at least if you are wise.Read the
stelê.2“
Stele
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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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