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SPEECH FOR THE FREEDOM OF RHODES.
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and deprived of constitutional privileges, and disqualified from being your political advisers."
Again Demosthenes failed. The bitterness of Athenian feeling towards the ungrateful islanders made the people blind to higher considerations, and Rhodes remained in the hands of an oligarchy. It was still subject to Caria, and was thus really a Persian dependency.
