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Now, if
anyone expects the Thebans to take our side, it is difficult to speak to you
about them, because you have such a hearty dislike of them that you would not
care to hear any good of them, even if it were true; but yet, when dealing with
grave matters, one must not on any pretext pass over an important consideration.
For my part, I believe that the Thebans are so little likely to join the King in
an attack on Greece that they would pay
a large sum,
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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