[24] On an earlier occasion, when Perdiccas,
1
who was king of
Macedonia
at the time of the Persian invasions, destroyed the barbarians who were retreating after their defeat at
Plataea
and so completed the discomfiture of the Great King, they did not vote him the citizenship, but only gave him immunity from taxes; because, I presume, they regarded their own country as great, glorious, and venerable, and as something greater than any service rendered. But now, Athenians, you make citizens of the scum of mankind, menial sons of menial fathers, charging a price for it as for any other commodity.
On Organization. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.
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