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Whether the
decrees stand as they are, men of the jury, or are annulled （for it
makes no difference to me）, what does the state either gain or lose?
Nothing, in my opinion. They say that the men of Aenos1 pay no heed to
our state, and that this has come about because of this fellow Theocrines. For
being harassed by the false and malicious charges of this man at the time when
some of them were turning to Philip and others to Athens, and learning that the decree which
Charinus had previously indicted had again been indicted as
illegal,—the decree, that is, which Thucydides proposed and which had
to do with their contribution2; and learning furthermore that no
conclusion was being reached in the matter,
1 Aenos, a town on the south coast of Thrace.
2 It appears that the Athenian general Chares had fixed the tribute to be paid by the Athenians at a moderate sum, and that Thucydides had proposed a decree approving this act. This decree was indicted as illegal, first by Charinus and then by Theocrines. The result was that the Aenians revolted and went over to the side of Philip.
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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