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Now no one would deny that our city is benefited by the weakness of the
Lacedaemonians and of the Thebans yonder.1 The
position of affairs, then, if one may judge from statements repeatedly made in
your Assembly, is such that the Thebans will be weakened by the refounding of
Orchomenus, Thespiae and Plataea, but the Lacedaemonians will regain their power, if
they get Arcadia into their hands and
destroy Megalopolis.
1 A gesture reminds his hearers how near neighbors the Thebans were.
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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