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Apart then from the fact that this decree does not further our
policy, you must be warned that, as regards reputation also, it does not further
the interest of our city to be known to have enacted anything of the sort. If,
men of Athens, the decree had been
made for the benefit of a man dwelling in a free state, and living under its
laws as a free citizen, it would have been less discreditable, though still
unwarranted; but in fact it has been made for Charidemus, a man not domiciled in
any free state at all, but commanding an army for a Thracian and an autocrat,
and maltreating people by royal authority.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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