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I come to another claim sanctioned by the compact. For
the actual words are, “If any of the parties shall overthrow the
constitution established in the several states at the date when they took the
oaths to observe the peace, they shall be treated as enemies by all the parties
to the peace.” But just reflect, men of Athens, that the Achaeans in the Peloponnese enjoyed democratic government, and
one of their democracies, that of Pellene, has now been overthrown by the Macedonian king, who
has expelled the majority of the citizens, given their property to their slaves,
and set up Chaeron, the wrestler, as their tyrant.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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