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To dedicate those buildings they did not tithe themselves,
nor fulfil the imprecations of their enemies by doubling the income-tax; nor was
their policy ever guided by such advisers as you. No, they conquered their
enemies, they fulfilled the prayers of every sound-hearted man by establishing
concord throughout the city, and so they have bequeathed to us their
imperishable glory,and excluded from the marketplace men whose habits of life
were what yours have always been.
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