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whereas those men single-handed not only
repulsed a host assembled from an entire continent, which had already subdued
all other lands, but also inflicted punishment for the wrong done the rest of
the Greeks. Furthermore, checking all acts of selfish aggrandisement among the
Greeks themselves, assigning themselves to each station where justice was
arrayed, they went on bearing the brunt of all dangers that chanced to arise
until the lapse of time brings us to the generation now living.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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