Demosthenes, On the Chersonese, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 28

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[28] That, too, is the meaning of the dispatch of a second general to the Hellespont . For if Diopithes is acting outrageously in detaining the merchantmen, a note, men of Athens , a brief note, could put a stop to all this at once; and there are the laws, which direct us to impeach such offenders, but not, of course, to mount guard over ourselves,¹ at such a cost and with so large a fleet; for that would be the height of madness.

On the Chersonese. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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On the Chersonese (English) (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).)

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περὶ τῶν ἐν Χερρονήσῳ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 28 focus

[28] καὶ τό γʼ εἰς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον εἰσπέμπειν ἕτερον στρατηγὸν τοῦτʼ ἐστίν. εἰ γὰρ δεινὰ ποιεῖ Διοπείθης καὶ κατάγει τὰ πλοῖα, μικρόν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, μικρὸν πινάκιον ταῦτα πάντα κωλῦσαι δύναιτʼ ἄν, καὶ λέγουσιν οἱ νόμοι, ταῦτα τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας εἰσαγγέλλειν, οὐ μὰ Δίʼ οὐ δαπάναις καὶ τριήρεσιν τοσαύταις ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς φυλάττειν, ἐπεὶ τοῦτό γʼ ἐστὶν ὑπερβολὴ μανίας·

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On the Chersonese

1. i.e. to keep a jealous watch over our own officers.

Demosthenes On the Chersonese 28

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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