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Will
you not execute this accursed wretch, Athenians, who, in addition to many other
crucial blunders, stood by while the Thebans' city was destroyed, though he had
accepted three hundred talents from the Persian King for their protection though
the Arcadians,1 arriving at the Isthmus, had dismissed with a
rebuff the envoys of Antipater and welcomed those from the unhappy Thebans who
had reached them with difficulty by sea, bearing a suppliant's staff and
heralds' wands, plaited, they said, from olive shoots?
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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