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You see, men
of Athens, how well and how justly the orator framed the decree in the interest
of the people of Athens by requiring that the Plataeans, after receiving the
gift, should first undergo the scrutiny in the court, man by man, in order to
show whether each man was a Plataean and one of the friends of the city, so as
to avoid the danger that many might use this pretext to acquire Athenian
citizenship; and by requiring further1 that the names of those who had passed the scrutiny should be
inscribed upon a pillar of marble and should be set up in the Acropolis near the
temple of the goddess, to the end that the favor granted to them should be
preserved for their descendants and that each one of these might be in a
position to prove his relationship to one of those receiving the grant.
1 The clauses of the decree containing these provisions have plainly been lost.
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