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So do not be concerned when he weeps and
laments. You might, with far more justice, pity the country, which this man is
exposing to danger by behaving as he has, and which is begging you, who are its
sons, in the names of your wives and children, to take vengeance on the traitor
and save it: the land which your ancestors, after facing many noble combats for
it, have handed on to you free in which many noble examples have been left us of
the courage of those who gave their lives.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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