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Are not tyrannies already established in Euboea, an island, remember, not far from
Thebes and Athens? Does he not write explicitly in his
letters, “I am at peace with those who are willing to obey
me”? And he does not merely write this without putting it into
practice; but he is off to the Hellespont, just as before he hurried to Ambracia; in the Peloponnese he occupies the important city of
Elis; only the other day he
intrigued against the Megarians. Neither the Greek nor the barbarian world is
big enough for the fellow's ambition.
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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