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But though I have been led to utter this lament over Greece as a whole, it behoves us to remember, in public as in private, those men[*] who, shunning slavery, fighting for the right, and rallying to the cause of democracy, incurred the hostility of all and returned to the Peiraeus; compelled by no law, but induced by their nature; imitating in fresh encounters the ancient valor of their ancestors;

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