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Now what do you
think those men would have done, Athenians, if they had caught a general or an
orator, one of their own citizens, accepting bribes against the interests of
their country, when they so justly and wisely expelled a man who was alien to
Greece in birth and character? That
is the reason why they faced danger against the barbarian worthily of the city
and their ancestors.1
1 The conclusion of the speech is lost.
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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