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Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 5 (search)
Our duty, then, is to take care lest the
Lacedaemonians grow strong and formidable before the Thebans are weaker, and
lest their increase of power should, unperceived by us, out-balance the
diminution of the power of Thebes,
which our interests demand. For this at least we should never admit, that we
would sooner have the Lacedaemonians for our rivals than the Thebans, nor is
that our serious aim, but rather to put it out of the power of either to do us
harm, for in that way we shall enjoy the most complete security.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 6 (search)
But perhaps we shall
admit that that is how matters ought to stand, but feel that it is monstrous to
choose as our allies the men whose ranks we faced at Mantinea,The Athenians fought on the left wing of the Lacedaemonians at Mantinea against Thebans, Arcadians
and other allies of Thebes. and even to help them against those with whom we
shared the dangers of that battle. And I too am of that opinion, but I think we
must add the saving clause, “if the others consent to do what is
just.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 14 (search)
Then there
is another argument that astonishes me; that if we make an alliance with the
Arcadians and act upon it, our city will seem to be changing its policy and
breaking faith. For to me, men of Athens, the exact opposite seems to be the case. How so?
Because I do not think any one man would deny that Athens has saved the Lacedaemonians, and
the Thebans before them, and the Euboeans recently,The references are to the battle of Mantinea （362）, the
alliance with Thebes against
Sparta in 378, and the
deliverance of Euboea from the
Thebans in 357. and has afterwards made alliance with them, having
always one and the same object in vi
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 19 (search)
But further,
with regard to any acts which they say the Megalopolitans have committed for the
sake of the Thebans somewhat against your interests, it is ridiculous to make
these now the count of an indictment, but when they want to become friends and
make you some reparation, to look askance at them and devise means of preventing
this, and not to realize that the more zealous they show themselves to have been
in the cause of the Thebans, the more justly would these very speakers incur
your anger, if they deprived the city of such useful allies, when they came to
you before applying to Thebes.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 20 (search)
But these, I take it, are the allegations
of men who want once again to drive the Megalopolitans elsewhere for an
alliance. Now I know, as far as reasoning and conjecture can teach me, and I
think that most of you will agree with me, that if the Lacedaemonians take
Megalopolis, Messene will be in danger; and if they
take Messene also, I say that we
shall find ourselves in alliance with Thebes.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 21 (search)
Surely it is more
honorable and satisfactory that we should win the alliance of the Thebans on our
own account and resist Spartan ambition, than that we should shrink from
rescuing the allies of Thebes and
abandon them now, only to rescue the Thebans in the end, and to be kept moreover
in perpetual alarm for ourselves.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 25 (search)
In order,
then, that this unwillingness may not stand in the way of the weakening of
Thebes, let us admit that
Thespiae, Orchomenus and Plataea ought to be restored, and let us
co-operate with their inhabitants and appeal to the other states, for it is a
just and honorable policy not to allow ancient cities to be uprooted; but at the
same time let us not abandon Megalopolis and Messene to their oppressors, nor allow the restoration of
Plataea and Thespiae to blind us to the destruction of
existing and established states.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 28 (search)
If the
Megalopolitans, though peace is secured for them, still cling to the Theban
alliance, it will of course be obvious to all that they prefer the ambition of
Thebes to the claims of justice;
or if, while the Megalopolitans join our alliance in all sincerity, the
Lacedaemonians refuse to keep the peace, then it will be equally obvious that
the object of their activities is not merely to restore Thespiae, but to subjugate the Peloponnese while the Thebans are engrossed in
the war.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 29 (search)
I am surprised that some of you are
afraid of the enemies of Sparta
becoming allies of Thebes, and yet
see nothing to fear in their subjugation by the Lacedaemonians, forgetting the
practical lesson to be learned from the past, that the Thebans always use these
allies against the Lacedaemonians, whereas the Lacedaemonians, when they had
them at command, used them against us.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 30 (search)