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Ought
there not to be brigadiers and a cavalry-commander, all chosen from among
yourselves, native Athenian officers, that the force might be a truly national
one? Yes, but your own cavalry-commander has to sail to Lemnos,1 leaving Menelaus2 to command the men who are fighting
for our city's possessions. I do not say this in his disparagement, but that
commander, whoever he is, ought to be one elected by you.
1 We learn from Aristot. Ath. Pol. 61.6, that a ἵππαρχος was regularly sent to Lemnos to take charge of the cavalry there.
2 Identified by Harpocration with a son of Amyntas II. and so half-brother of Philip; more probably a petty Macedonian chief who helped the Athenians at Potidaea in 364, and who is named in a complimentary inscription which has been preserved （C.I.A. 2.55）.
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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