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They came to assure the Arcadians that no wish to break
their friendship with the Greeks had led the Thebans to a revolution, nor did
they intend to do anything to the detriment of Greece; but they were no longer able to countenance at home the
behavior of the Macedonians in the city, to endure slavery, or to witness the
outrages perpetrated against the persons of free men.
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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