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Do you
not see, men of Athens, what a
conspicuous and striking example is offered by those miserable Olynthians, who
owe their rain, unhappy men, to nothing so much as to such conduct as I have
described? You may easily discover the truth by a review of their experience. At
the time when their cavalry was only four hundred strong, and their whole force
numbered no more than five thousand, for there was then no coalition of all the
Chalcidians,
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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