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Moreover I should never have made this proposal, had I thought that it would
benefit the Rhodian democrats alone, for I am not the official patron of that
party, nor do I count any of them among my private friends. Yet even if both
these motives had been present, I should not have proposed it, if I had not
thought that it would benefit you, since I share in your satisfaction at the
fate of the Rhodians—if one who is pleading for their deliverance may
be permitted to say so. For they grudged you the recovery of your rights, and
now they have lost their own liberty; they spurned an alliance with you who are
Greeks and their betters, and now they are slaves of barbarians, slaves of
slaves, whom they admitted into their citadels.
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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