Demosthenes, On the Peace, ed. Samuel Henry Butcher, 23

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[23] Θετταλοὶ δέ γʼ οὐδέτερʼ ἐβούλοντο τούτων, οὔτε Θηβαίους οὔτε τὸν Φίλιππον μέγαν γίγνεσθαι (ταῦτα γὰρ πάντʼ ἐφʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἡγοῦντο), τῆς πυλαίας δʼ ἐπεθύμουν καὶ τῶν ἐν Δελφοῖς, πλεονεκτημάτων δυοῖν, κύριοι γενέσθαι· τῷ δὲ τούτων γλίχεσθαι τάδε συγκατέπραξαν. τῶν τοίνυν ἰδίων ἕνεχʼ εὑρήσεθʼ ἕκαστον πολλὰ προηγμένον ὧν οὐδὲν ἐβούλετο πρᾶξαι. τοῦτο μέντοι, τοῦτʼ ἔστιν φυλακτέον ἡμῖν.

On the Peace. Demosthenes. ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Oxford. 1903.

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περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.)

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On the Peace Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. I: Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Speeches, Speech Against Leptines, I-XVII, XX. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930 (printing).) — 23 focus

[23] But the Thessalians aimed at the aggrandizement neither of Thebes nor of Philip, because they felt that all that would tell against them; but they were anxious to control the council at Thermopylae and the Delphian temple¹—two clear gains for them; and it was this ambition that led them to join in the war. So you will find that each of these powers was induced for private reasons to do much that it did not wish. That, however, is emphatically what we must avoid.

Demosthenes On the Peace 23

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