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But through this traitor children and
women, the wives of the Thebans, were distributed among the tents of the
barbarians, a neighboring and allied city has been torn up from the midst of
Greece and the site of Thebes is being ploughed and sown, the city
of men who shared with you the war against Philip. Yes, it is being ploughed and
sown. And this unfeeling wretch showed no compassion for a city thus lamentably
destroyed, though he visited it as an envoy representing you and has often
shared the meat and drink of its citizens, claiming himself that he made it our
ally. But those to whom he often resorted in their prosperity he has betrayed in
their misfortune.
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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