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Archias
Was it not your charge that we should use no force at first? Yet indeed we should have fared no better if we had; we did intend it.Antipater
You did not well, even in the intention; it may be your violence killed him.Archias
No, we killed him not; but if we could not persuade him, there was nothing for it but force. But, O King, how had you been the better off, if he had come alive? you could have done no more than kill him.Demosthenis encomium. Lucian of Samosota. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.
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