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There is another plea of the
same sort by which they hope to lead you off the track. “Cersobleptes
and Charidemus,” they will say, “did perhaps oppose
Athens at a time when they were
unfriendly; but now they are our friends, and wish to be useful friends. We
really must not be vindictive. When we were rescuing the Lacedaemonians, we
dismissed from our minds the injuries they had done to us as enemies; so too
with the Thebans, and, quite recently, with the Euboeans.”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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