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When the Thebans saw the
trick, they promptly changed their minds and joined our side; otherwise the
whole business would have descended upon Athens like a torrent from the hills. In fact, the Thebans
checked him for the moment; and for that relief, men of Athens, you have first and chiefly to thank
the kindness of some friendly god, but in a secondary degree, and so far as one
man could help, you have to thank me. Hand me those decrees, with the dates of
the several transactions. They will show you what a mass of trouble this
consummate villain provoked; and yet he was never punished.
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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