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Nay, I am surprised that you, men of
Athens, who once withstood the
Lacedaemonians in defence of the rights of Hellas, who spurned the opportunity,
repeatedly offered, of self-aggrandizement, who lavished your treasure and
jeoparded your lives in the field that others might enjoy their rights, now
shrink from service and grudge to pay your contributions for the sake of your
own possessions. I am surprised that you, who have so often saved the other
states, both all of them together and each separately in turn, should sit down
under the loss of what is your own.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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