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In the next place, men of
Athens, I would like to relate a
piece of history, which will make it still more evident to you that it is your
bounden duty to abrogate this decree. Once upon a time, on a certain occasion,
you gave your citizenship to Ariobarzanes,1 and also, on his account, to
Philiscus,—just as you have recently given it to Charidemus for the
sake of Cersobleptes. Philiscus, who resembled Charidemus in his choice of a
career, began to use the power of Ariobarzanes by occupying Hellenic cities. He
entered them and committed many outrages, mutilating free-born boys, insulting
women, and behaving in general as you would expect a man, who had been brought
up where there were no laws, and none of the advantages of a free constitution,
to behave if he attained to power.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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