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Why then does he
deal in that way with the other Greeks, but with you in this way? Because yours
is the one city in the world where immunity is granted to plead on behalf of our
enemies, and where a man who has been bribed can safely address you in person,
even when you have been robbed of your own. It would not have been safe in
Olynthus to plead Philip's
cause, unless the Olynthian democracy had shared in the enjoyment of the
revenues of Potidaea.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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