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Such was
their condition in those days under the leaders I have named; and what is our
condition today, thanks to our worthy statesmen? Is it the same or anything like
the same? Why, we—I pass over much that I might mention, but you all
see what a clear field we had got, with the Lacedaemonians crushed, the Thebans
fully occupied, and no other city fit to dispute the supremacy with us, while we
might have been both the vindicators of our own rights and the umpires of the
rights of others;
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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