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Is this a reason why you, the injured
parties, should give way to feelings of consideration for such a person when he
himself showed no consideration in treating you and your fellows as he did?
Those who could justly claim your pity, Athenians, are not the like of
him,—far from it,—they are those whom Philocles would have
betrayed if he had had the chance of a good price; and among them are the
promontory and harbors, and the dockyards which your ancestors built and left
you.
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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