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Nevertheless, when he was a wicked,
unprincipled man, and was doing you serious injury, you treated the men who put
him to death, Pytho and Heracleides of
Aenos, as benefactors, made them
citizens, and decorated them with crowns of gold. Now suppose that, at the time
when the disposition of Cotys was thought to be friendly, it had been proposed
that any one who killed Cotys should be given up for punishment, would you have
given up Pytho and his brother? Or
would you, in defiance of the decree, have given them your citizenship, and
honored them as benefactors?
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