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Therefore when Alexander,
contrary to the oaths and the compacts as set forth in the general peace,
restored those tyrants, the sons of Philiades,1
to Messene, had he any regard for
justice? Did he not rather give play to his own tyrannical disposition, showing
little regard for you and the joint agreement?
1 Tyrant of Messene in the time of Philip. His sons, Neon and Thrasymachus, were expelled but restored by Alexander. Polybius, himself an Arcadian, born a century and a half later, enters a vigorous protest against Demosthenes' condemnation of these and other “traitors” in Dem. 18.295, and claims that they had rendered valuable service in freeing the Peloponnesian states from the yoke of Sparta and ensuring their prosperity under the aegis of Macedonia （Polybius 17.14.）.
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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