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Men of
Athens, nothing more awful or
more momentous has befallen in Greece
within living memory, nor, as I believe, in all the history of the past. Yet
through the agency of these men all these great and terrible transactions have
been dominated by a single individual, though the city of Athens is still in being, the city whose
ancestral prerogative it was to stand forth as the champion of the Hellenic
race, and declare that such things shall not be. In what fashion these unhappy
Phocians have perished you may learn, not from the decrees alone,
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