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In
consequence of this, a rival has stepped into the position that you ought to
have filled, and it is he who has become prosperous and great and ruler over
many things. And rightly so; for there is a prize, honorable, great, and
glorious, a prize for which the greatest of our states once spent all their time
in contending, but since misfortune has dogged the Lacedaemonians, and the
Phocian War has left the Thebans no leisure, and we are heedless, he has grasped
it without a struggle.
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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