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took five hundred horsemen with all their equipment by the treason of their
officers—a number beyond all precedent. The perpetrators of that
infamy were not put to the blush by the sun that shone on their shame or by the
soil of their native land on which they stood, by temples or by sepulchres, by
the ignominy that waited on their deeds: such madness, men of Athens, such obliquity, does corruption
engender! Therefore it behoves you, you the commonalty of Athens, to keep your senses, to refuse
toleration to such practices, and to visit them with public retribution. For
indeed it would be monstrous if, after passing so stern a decree of censure upon
the men who betrayed the Olynthians, you should have no chastisement for those
who repeat their iniquity in your own midst. Read the decree concerning the
Olynthians.“
Decree
”
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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