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For who of them does not know that as long
as they were of one mind and regarded the Persian as their common enemy, they
could count on many advantages, but ever since they thought of him as a friend
to fall back on and were torn asunder by their own private quarrels, they have
suffered such disasters as no one would have devised for them even in an
imprecation. If that is so, are we to fear this man, whom fortune and the voice
of Heaven proclaim to be an unprofitable friend and an auspicious foe? Never!
Yet let us do him no wrong either, both in our own interests and in view of the
unrest and disloyalty of the other Greeks.
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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