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Or again,—let us suppose
this to happen,—what if Alexander, in pursuance of Demosthenes'
decree,1
sends and asks us for the gold brought into the country by Harpalus, and, over
and above the fact that the council has made a report, sends down here the
slaves which have now been returned to him and asks us to find out the truth
from them; what in Heaven's name shall we say, gentlemen?
1 Demosthenes had proposed that the money should be kept on the Acropolis until Alexander sent for it.
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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