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“Furthermore, the
People of Athens regard the
people of Thebes as in no way
alien either in race or in nationality. They remember the services rendered
by their own ancestors to the ancestors of the Thebans, for, when the sons
of Heracles were dispossessed by the Peloponnesians of their paternal
dominion, they restored them, overcoming in battle those who were trying to
oppose the descendants of Heracles; and we harbored Oedipus and his family
when they were banished; and many other notable acts of kindness have we
done to the Thebans.”
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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