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So our ancestors thought that they were
bound to consider the welfare of all Greeks, for except on that assumption
bribery and corruption in the Peloponnese would be no concern of theirs; and in chastising
and punishing all whom they detected, they went so far as to set the offenders'
names on a pillar. The natural result was that the Greek power was dreaded by
the barbarian, not the barbarian by the Greeks. But that is no longer so. For
that is not your attitude towards these and other offences. What then is your
attitude?
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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