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You ought, men of Athens, to seek a just course, not only in
the light of these considerations, but also in the light of your own previous
actions in the case of others who have acted as these men have done. For, when
you were worsted in the sea-fight against Alexander,1 you thought that the
trierarchs who had let out their trierarchies were chiefly responsible for what
had happened, and you gave them over for imprisonment, having decided by show of
hands that they had betrayed their ships and deserted their post.
1 Alexander of Pherae had defeated the Athenian fleet at Peparethus in 361 B.C.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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