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yet he does not covet the Athenian harbors and dockyards and
war-galleys and silver mines and the like sources of wealth, but will allow you
to retain them, while he winters in that purgatory for the sake of the rye and
millet of the Thracian store-pits. It is not so, but it is to win these prizes
that he devotes his activities to all those other objects.
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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