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For my part, I cannot regard such action as consistent with
your honor or your good fame. It must be discreditable, first to denounce the
Lacedaemonians for giving written licence to the King of Persia to do what he likes to the Hellenic
inhabitants of Asia,1 and then to put
European Hellenes, and everybody whom Charidemus thinks he can overpower, at the
mercy of Cersobleptes. And that is precisely the effect of this decree, when no
distinction is drawn as to what his general may or may not do, but when all who
resist his attacks are menaced with such terrors.
1 By the Peace of Antalcidas, 387.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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