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I wish, now
that I have entered upon this subject, to set forth to you also the consequences
which result from such actions. When a man who has taken the trierarchy for hire
sets sail, he plunders and pillages everybody; the profits he reaps for himself,
but whoever it may chance to be of you citizens pays the damages; and you alone
of all people are unable to travel anywhere without a herald's staff of truce
because of the acts of these men in seizing hostages and in provoking reprisals;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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