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Hume's Political Discourses

Note 64 — OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.​[39]

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Diod. Sic., lib. 14. Isocrates says there were only 5000 banished. He makes the number of those killed amount to 1500. Areop. Æschines contra Ctesiph. assigns precisely the same number. Seneca (De tranq. anim. cap. 5) says 1300.

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