This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
[12]
For
when all the Peloponnesians came to you and called on you to lead them against
the Lacedaemonians, it was not by such arguments that these men persuaded you
not to receive them—（and that was why they took the only
remaining course of applying to the Thebans）—but to
contribute funds and risk your lives for the safety of the Lacedaemonians. Yet
you would surely never have consented to save them, if they had announced to you
that when saved they would owe you no thanks for your help, unless you allowed
them as before to commit whatever act of injustice they chose.
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.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.