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Who,” he continued, “could endure
your madness and extravagance, a crew corrupted and accustomed to receive large
sums in advance and to enjoy exemption from services normally required on board
a ship, and able also to make use of the baths, and marines and rowers rendered
luxurious by high wages paid in full? Bad ways,” he said,
“are these you have taught the army. It is partly your fault that the
troops of the other trierarchs have become more unruly, seeking to have the same
treatment that yours enjoy; you ought to have done the same as the other
trierarchs.”
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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