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But, as it is, you claim to take the lead and to
determine the rights of other states; yet neither in the past nor today have you
furnished a sufficient force to superintend and secure this claim. On the
contrary, it was when you stood utterly aloof and indifferent that the
democracies of Mytilene and of
Rhodes were destroyed.
“Yes, but Rhodes was our
enemy,” you may say.
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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