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Then why will you wait, Athenians? What further crimes do you wish to hear of
greater than those we have mentioned? Was it not you and your ancestors who made
no allowance for Timotheus,1 though he had sailed round the Peloponnese and beaten the Spartans in the
sea-fight at Corcyra, though his father
was Conon who liberated Greece and he
himself had taken Samos, Methone, Pydna, Potidaea, and twenty cities besides? You did not take
this record into consideration at all, or allow such services to outweigh the
case before you or the oaths which you swear before giving your verdict, but
fined him a hundred talents, because Aristophon said he had been bribed by the
Chians and Rhodians.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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