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Here is another point for your
consideration, gentlemen of the jury. Who gained the greater advantage in the
operations, the Phocians over the Thebans, or Philip over you? I reply, the
Phocians over the Thebans. They held Orchomenus, and Coronea, and Tilphosaeum; they had kept within the walls the
Theban garrison at Neon; they had slain two hundred and seventy Thebans at
Hedyleum, and a trophy had been set up; they were superior in cavalry, and so an
Iliad of woes encompassed 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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