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Once more I
would have you observe in what way you granted the right to share citizenship
with you to men who had thus signally manifested their good will toward your
people, and who sacrificed all their possessions and their children and their
wives. The decrees which you passed will make the law plain to everybody, and
you will know that I am speaking the truth.Take
this decree, please, and read it to the jury.“Decree Regarding the
PlataeansOn motion of Hippocrates
it is decreed that the Plataeans shall be Athenians from this day, and shall
have full rights as citizens, and that they shall share in all the
privileges in which the Athenians share, both civil and religious, save any
priesthood or religious office which belongs to a particular family, and
that they shall not be eligible to the office of the nine archons but their
descendants shall be. And the Plataeans shall be distributed among the demes
and the tribes; and after they have been so distributed, it shall no longer
be lawful for any Plataean to become an Athenian, unless he wins the gift
from the people of Athens.”
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