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What is my
evidence? Lysimachus,1 only one of the worthies of that
day, received a hundred roods of orchard in Euboea and a hundred of arable land, besides a hundred minas of
silver and a pension of four drachmas a day. And the decree in which these gifts
are recorded stands in the name of Alcibiades. For then our city was rich in
lands and money, though now—she will be rich some day2; for I must
put it in that way to avoid anything like obloquy. Yet today who, think you,
would not prefer a third of that reward to mere immunity? To prove the truth of
my words, please take the decree. “
Decree
”
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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