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 PROVISIONS FOR DEFENCE. 03 from military service, to march down in armi; to Peirseus, xnd put that harbor in condition to stand a siege ; placing every man without exception at the disposal of the generals, as a sol- dier for defence, and imposing the penalties of treason on every one who fled ; l enfranchising all slaves fit for bearing arms, granting the citizenship to metics under the same circumstances, and restoring to the full privilege of citizens those who had been dis- franchised by judicial sentence. 2 This last-mentioned decree was proposed by Hyperides ; but several others were moved by De- mosthenes, who, notwithstanding the late misfortune of the Athe- nian arms, was listened to with undiminished respect and confi- dence. The general measures requisite for strengthening the walls, opening ditches, distributing military posts and construct- ing earthwork, were decreed on his motion ; and he seems to have been named member of a special Board for superintending the fortifications. 3 Not only he, but also most of the conspicuous citizens and habitual speakers in the assembly, came forward with large private contributions to meet the pressing wants of the mo- ment, 4 Every man in the city lent a hand to make good the defective points in the fortification. Materials were obtained by felling the trees near the city, and even by taking stones from the adjacent sepulchres 5 as had been done after the Persian war when the walls were built under the contrivance of Themistokles. 6 The temples were stripped of the arms suspended within them, for the purpose of equipping unarmed citizens. 7 By such earn- est and unanimous efforts, the defences of the city and of Peiraeua were soon materially improved. At sea Athens had nothing to 1 Lykurgus adv. Lcokrat. p. 177. c. 13. 1 Lykurgus adv. Leokrat. p. 170. c. 11. rivitf 6[>$v ijv rbv 6fj/j.ov ^rj^iait- fifvov rovf (lev tiovTiove tAevdepovf. rot)? Se gevovf 'Adrivaiovf, roite 6e uri- uovi; ivTi/iovf. The orator causes this decree, proposed by Hyperides, to be read publicly by the secretary, in court. Compare Pseudo-Plutarch, Vit. X. Orat. p. 849, and Demosth. cont. Aris tog. p. 803.
 * t Demosth. De Corona, p. 309 ; Deinarchus adv. Demosth. p. 100.

4 Demosth. De Corona, p. 329; Deinarchus adv. Demosth. p. 100; Pin terch, Vit. X. Orat. p. 851. 6 Lykurgus adv. Lcokrat. p. 172. c. 11 ; JEsihines adv. Ktcsiph. p. 87. 8 Thucyd. i. 93. Lvkunrus adv. Lcokrat. 1. c.