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You ought, therefore, to have just the same feeling in regard to yourselves; you should reflect that to give your support from personal motives to a man accused of evading military service will be exactly the same as if some of these officersThe six junior archons had charge of the text of the laws and the general supervision of the law-courts and certain classes of trials. should put in a request while they are actually putting the question.
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And consider, gentlemen, if you have not found sufficient proof that none of the commanders in the army up to that time was a supporter of Alcibiades. For if their statementi.e., that they enroled Alcibiades in the cavalry as being favorably disposed to him. is true, they ought to have cited PamphilusPamphilus was probably a cavalry commander. for depriving the city of a horseman by taking away his horse; to have mulcted the squadron-commander for expelling Alcibiades from the squadron to the confusion of the order they had settled; and to have instructed the commander to erase his name from the roll of the infantry.
