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Bearing this in mind, we must rely not on occasional
levies, or we shall be too late for everything, but on a regular standing army.
You have the advantage of winter bases for your troops in Lemnos, Thasos, Sciathos, and the neighboring islands, where are to be
found harbors, provisions, and everything that an army needs; and during that
season of the year when it is easy to stand close in to shore and the winds are
steady, your force will easily lie off his coast and at the mouth of his
seaports.
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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