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But these champions of tyranny might urge
that the sons of Philiades were tyrants of Messene before the compact was made, and that that was why
Alexander restored them. But it is a ridiculous principle to expel the Lesbian
tyrants on the ground that their rule is an outrage—I mean the tyrants
of Antissa and Eresus, who
established themselves before the agreement—and yet to imagine that it
is a matter of indifference at Messene, where the same harsh system prevails.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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