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Now if you were asked, men of Athens, what form of compulsion would most
rouse your indignation, I think that if the sons of Pisistratus1 had been alive at the present time and someone tried
to compel you to restore them, you would snatch up your weapons and brave any
danger rather than receive them back, or if you did consent, you would be
slaves, as surely as if you had been bought for money; nay, more so, inasmuch as
no one would intentionally kill his own servant, but the victims of tyranny may
be seen executed without trial, as well as outraged in the persons of their
wives and children.
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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