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Antipater Ha? my hopes are dashed. What avail ashes and urns, if I have not Demosthenes?
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Archias The soul, O King, may not be prisoned in a man’s own despite.
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Antipater Why took you him not alive?
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Archias We took him.
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Antipater And he has died on the way?
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Archias He died where he was, in Calauria.
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Antipater Your neglect is to blame; you took not due care of him.
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Archias Nay, it lies not at our door.
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Antipater What mean you? These are riddles, Archias; you took him alive, and you have him not?
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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.
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Antipater You did not well, even in the intention; it may be your violence killed him.
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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.
