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and some of these men
through their goodwill to you have no longer a fatherland. The first example
that I propose to examine is that of the Corinthian exiles. And here I am
obliged to mention facts which I myself have only heard from the lips of the
older among you.1 Some occasions,
then, on which they made themselves useful to us, I will pass over; but when the
great battle against the Lacedaemonians was fought near Corinth, and when the party in that city
determined after the battle not to admit our soldiers within their walls, but to
send heralds to greet the Lacedaemonians,
1 Demosthenes was now thirty, and the battle was fought ten tears before his birth.
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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