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His was the only case in which they
added the reason why the people banished him from the city, explicitly writing
on the pillar that Arthmius, son of Pithonax, the Zelite, was an enemy of the
people and its allies, he and his descendants, and was exiled from Athens because he had brought the Persian
gold to the Peloponnese. And yet if the
people regarded the gold in the Peloponnese as a source of great danger to Greece, how can we remain unmoved at the sight
of bribery in the city itself? Please attend to the inscription on the
pillar.“
Inscription
”
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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