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it
was a very odd thing for a man, who had solemnly announced that the Thebans had
set a price upon his head, to walk straight into the middle of Thebes and the Theban encampment.
Nevertheless, he was so excited, his appetite for moneymaking and bribe-taking
was so keen, that he put aside and ignored all these obstacles, and off he went.
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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