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ἀναστασέως. Understand ὑπέρ, which=περί here as with μέρους, though in a different sense. “To save themselves from utter destruction.” Ἀμφιπολιτῶν . . . Πυδναίων. The Scholiast says that in each case he lost no time in putting to death those who helped him by their treachery; but we have no trustworthy evidence. ὅλως, “generally speaking.” πολιτείαις, “free communities,” a term applied to any form of government administered by πολῖται, and so excluding τυραννίς only: but it is often specially used of democracies. ὅμορον (ὁμοῦ and ὅρος).
Demosthenes: Olynthiacs I, II, III. H. Sharpley. 1900. W. Blackwood and Sons.
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