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“Another
Decree[Proposed by Callias of Phrearrii, and put to
vote by the presidents, with sanction of Council: that, whereas Charidemus,
dispatched to Salamis in command of
the infantry, and Diotimus, commanding the cavalry, when in the battle at
the river some of the soldiers had been disarmed by the enemy, did at their
own expense arm the younger men with eight hundred shields, it be resolved
by the Council and People to crown Charidemus and Diotimus with a golden
crown, and to proclaim it at the great Panathenaea during the gymnastic
contest, and at the Dionysia at the performance of the new tragedies; and
that the proclamation be entrusted to the judicial archons, the presidents,
and the stewards of the festival.]”
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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