What is this hypocrisy you speak of? Is it not due to these very civil wars that places like Lydia have been left defenseless? Persia has been left to her own devices under the expert care of Phanias, a man who has been chancellor more times than can be counted. To say it has been hung out to dry is the words of a fool. If you are a freedman than why do you fight against a man who has shown you nothing then kindness? Your cause is a shame, you ideals weak. The Basileus has done his best to make all heard, and has shown nothing but kindness to his people. He has given us things other rulers would not dare, has given us more freedom than many, and this is how you see fit to repay him. I promise you that it will be YOU who falls in this war, and I pray you live through it to see how much better our Basileus makes the Arche after your fall.
Death to the Traitors!
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