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I could continue this catalogue of traitors till the sun sets. Every one of
them, men of Athens, is a man of the
same way of thinking in the politics of his own country as Aeschines and his
friends are in ours. They too are profligates, sycophants, fiends incarnate;
they have mutilated their own countries; they have pledged away their liberty in
their cups, first to Philip, and now to Alexander. They measure their happiness
by their belly and their baser parts; they have overthrown for ever that freedom
and independence which to the Greeks of an earlier age were the very standard
and canon of prosperity.
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