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But as to the
Thebans, he believed—and the event justified him—that in
return for benefits received they would give him a free hand for the future and,
so far from opposing or thwarting him, would even join forces with him, if he so
ordered. Today, on the same assumption, he is doing the Messenians and the
Argives a good turn. That, men of Athens, is the highest compliment he could pay you.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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