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Yet violation of the rights of heralds and
ambassadors is regarded by all men as an act of impiety, and by none more than
by you, if I may judge from the fact that, when the Megarians arrested
Anthemocritus,1 your Assembly
went to the length of excluding them from the celebration of the mysteries, and
actually erected a statue before the city gates to commemorate the outrage. Yet
is it not monstrous that you are now yourselves notoriously guilty of acts
which, when you were the victims, excited in you such detestation of the
perpetrators?
1 The incident is narrated by Plutarch （Plut. Per. 30）. A. was sent to remonstrate with the Megarians for cultivating sacred ground. The statute was still to be seen in the time of Pausanias （Paus. 1.36.3）.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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