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And so you taught to all
Greece the lesson that, however
gravely a nation may have offended against you, you keep your resentment for
proper occasions, but if ever their life or their liberty is endangered, you
will not indulge your rancor or take your wrongs into account. Not only towards the Lacedaemonians have you so demeaned
yourselves; but when the Thebans were trying to annex Euboea, you were not indifferent; you did not
call to mind the injuries you had suffered from Themiso and Theodorus in the
matter of Oropus; you carried aid even to them. That was in the early days of
the volunteer trierarchs, of whom I was one; but I say nothing of that now.
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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