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"Will it not be strange, men of Syracuse, if those who have perished chose death on your behalf of their own
accord, but that you on their behalf shall not exact punishment from even your bitterest
enemies? and that, though you praise those who gave their very lives to preserve their
country's freedom, you shall make it a matter of greater moment to preserve the lives of the
murderers than to safeguard the honour of these men? You have
voted to embellish at public expense the tombs of the departed; yet what fairer embellishment
will you find than the punishing of their slayers? Unless, by Zeus, it would be by enrolling
them among your citizens, you should wish to leave living trophies of the departed. But, it may be said, they have renounced the name of enemies and have
become suppliants. On what grounds, pray, would this humane treatment have been accorded them?
For those who first established our ordinances regarding these matters prescrib