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Did he get nothing for proposing that
Taurosthenes1 should become an Athenian, though he had
enslaved his fellow citizens and, with his brother Callias, betrayed the whole
of Euboea to Philip? Taurosthenes whom
the laws forbid to set foot on Athenian soil, providing that if he does so he
shall be liable to the same penalties as an exile who returns after being
sentenced by the Areopagus. This was the man who Demosthenes the democrat
proposed should be your fellow citizen.
1 Dinarchus, like Aeschines, is distorting the facts. （Cf. Aeschin. 3 85 sq. and schol. ad loc.）. The cities of Euboea had entered the Athenian alliance in 357 B.C., but in 348 they revolted, probably owing to the intrigues of Philip with whom Athens was now at war over Olynthus. Taurosthenes and Callias commanded the army of Chalcis and the Athenians lost control of the island. In 343 however they transferred the allegiance of Chalcis to Athens, and a few years later-the exact date is not certain-were made Athenian citizens on the motion of Demosthenes （cf. Hyp. 5 col. 20）, whom Aeschines says they bribed.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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