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Why is it, think
you, men of Athens, that all the generals you dispatch—if I am to tell
you something of the truth about them—leave this war to itself and
pursue little wars of their own? It is because in this war the prizes for which
you contend are your own—（if, for instance, Amphipolis is captured, the immediate
gain will be yours）—while the officers have all the dangers
to themselves and no remuneration; but in the other case the risks are smaller
and the prizes fall to the officers and the soldiers—Lampsacus, for example, and Sigeum, and the
plunder of the merchant-ships. So they turn aside each to what pays him best.
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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