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Look at these instances,
because, though the right time for action is past, for wise men it is always the
right time to understand history. Lasthenes was hailed as friend—until
he betrayed Olynthus; Timolaus,
until he brought Thebes to ruin;
Eudicus and Simus of Larissa, until they put Thessaly under Philip's heel. Since then the whole world has
become crowded with men exiled, insulted, punished in every conceivable way.
What of Aristratus at Sicyon? or
Perilaus1 at Megara? Are
they not outcasts?
1 Perilaus: so MSS. here, and, with variations, in 295; according to Greek lexicographers the name was Perillus.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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