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Now your ancestors, whom
their orators, unlike ours today, did not caress or flatter, for five and forty
years1 commanded the willing obedience of the Greeks;
more than ten thousand talents did they accumulate in our Acropolis; the then
king of Macedonia2 was their
subject, even as a barbarian ought to be subject to Greeks; many honorable
trophies for victory on sea and land did they erect, themselves serving in the
field; and they alone of mankind left behind them by their deeds a renown
greater than all detraction.
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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