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And
thereby, men of Athens, they showed
a just appreciation of your character. After the entry of your soldiers no man
ever laid even a groundless complaint against them, so soberly did you conduct
yourselves. Fighting shoulder to shoulder with them in the two earliest
engagements,—the battle by the river, and the winter
battle,—you approved yourselves irreproachable fighters, admirable
alike in discipline, in equipment, and in determination. Your conduct elicited
the praises of other nations, and was acknowledged by yourselves in services of
thanksgiving to the gods.
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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