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Now I prefer to pass over many complaints that I might justly make,
but I admit that I am helping the Cardians,1 for I was their ally before the
peace, and you refused to submit your claim to arbitration, though you were
often pressed to do so by me, and not infrequently by the Cardians. Should I not
be utterly contemptible if I threw over my allies and paid more regard to you,
who are harassing me in every way, than to those who have always been my staunch
friends?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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