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Yet no man could point out two
places in the whole world of more importance to the commonwealth than Thermopylae by land and the Hellespont by sea; and both of them these men
have infamously sold and delivered into the hands of Philip. What an enormous
offence, apart from all the rest, is the surrender of Thrace and the Thracian outposts, I could show
by a thousand reasons; and it would be easy to point to many men who for such
betrayals have been sentenced to death or mulcted in large sums of money in this
court,—Ergophilus, Cephisodotus, Timomachus, and, in old times,
Ergocles, Dionysius, and others, of whom I may say that all of them together had
inflicted fewer injuries upon the commonwealth than the defendant.
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