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1, 2. τίς...βαρβάρων: cf. XIX. 312.—παρὰ Θηβαίων: in the time of Epaminondas.

3. παρὰ...Λακεδαιμονίων: after the Peloponnesian war, and before Leuctra.

4. παρὰ...βασιλέως, from Xerxes: see the order given to Mardonius before the battle of Plataea, reported to Athens by Alexander, king of Macedonia (Hdt. VIII. 140): τοῦτο μὲν τὴν γῆν σφι ἀπόδος, τοῦτο δὲ ἄλλην πρὸς ταύτῃ ἑλέσθων αὐτοὶ, ἥντινα ἂν ἐθέλωσι, ἐόντες αὐτόνομοι. See note on 204.5 (end).

6. ὅ τι βούλεται...προεστάναι: i.e. to keep her own and receive anything she wanted, on condition of being subject to Persia.

Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.

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