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One of
them, named Phryno, a bold, bad man, sent his son to Philip before he had put
him on the list of citizens; but another did not do anything that was unworthy
of his country or himself. Though he was still paying for a chorus and a
man-of-war,1 he thought it only right to spend more money of his own
free will, to ransom captives, and to allow none of his countrymen to suffer
distress through poverty. But another, instead of delivering any of the
Athenians who were already in captivity, helped to bring a whole district, and
ten thousand of the infantry and about a thousand of the cavalry of the allies
into captivity to Philip.
1 i.e. performing the “public services” （λῃτουργίαι） of the choragia and the trierarchia.
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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