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How
skilfully, as your commander, he drew up your ranks at Thebes1 to face the whole power of the Peloponnese, how he slew Gorgopas in
Aegina, what trophies he set up in
Cyprus and afterwards in Egypt, how he visited, I might almost say,
every land, yet nowhere disgraced our city's name or his own—of all
these exploits it is by no means easy to speak adequately, and it would be a
great shame if my words should make them fall below the estimate of him which
each one of you has formed in his own mind. But of some, which I think I could
never belittle in describing them, I will try to remind you.
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