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Again,
Athenians, it is not only the men who, in a private capacity, chose to benefit
you and to offer their services on those important occasions that have been
described a little while ago by Phormio and mentioned by me just
now—it is not only these men that you must be careful not to wrong,
but many others also, who drew whole states, their own native cities, into
alliance with us in the war against the Lacedaemonians,1 thus furthering by word and deed the
interests of your city;
1 The so-called Corinthian War, 395-387 B.C.
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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