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After that,
the Thebans invited you to join them. You marched out: you reinforced them. I
pass over the incidents of the march: but their reception of you was so friendly
that, while their own infantry and cavalry lay outside the walls, they gave you
access to their homes, to their citadel, to their wives and children and most
precious possessions. On that day the Thebans publicly paid three fine
compliments—to your valor, to your righteousness, and to your
sobriety. When they decided to fight on your side rather than against you, they
adjudged you to be braver men than Philip, and your claim to be more righteous
than his; and when they put into your power what they, like all other men, were
most anxious to safeguard, namely their wives and their children, they exhibited
their confidence in your sobriety.
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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