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See now how great is the difference
between your lust and the authority of our ancestors; between your love and frenzy,
and their wisdom and prudence. They took away from the Syracusans all access to the
shore; you have given them the command of the sea. They would not allow a Syracusans
to dwell in that part of the city which ships could approach; you appointed a
Syracusan to command the fleet and the ships. You gave those men a part of our
sovereignty, from whom they took a part of their own city; and you ordered those
allies of ours to be obedient to the Syracusans, to whose aid it is owing that the
Syracusans are obedient to us.
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