Demosthenes, On the Chersonese, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 63

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[63] the Thebans he is now misleading, having handed over Boeotia to them and relieved them of a long and trying war. So each of these states has reaped some benefit from him; some of them have already paid the penalty, as all men know; the rest will pay it whenever the day of reckoning comes. As for you, I say nothing of your losses in war,¹ but in the very act of accepting the peace, how completely you were deceived, how grievously you were robbed!

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.) — 63 focus

[63] Θηβαίους νῦν ὑπάγει τὴν Βοιωτίαν αὐτοῖς παραδοὺς καὶ ἀπαλλάξας πολέμου πολλοῦ καὶ χαλεποῦ· ὥστε καρπωσάμενοί τινʼ ἕκαστοι τούτων πλεονεξίαν οἱ μὲν ἤδη πεπόνθασιν ἃ δὴ πάντες ἴσασιν, οἱ δʼ ὅταν ποτὲ συμβῇ πείσονται. ὑμεῖς δʼ ὧν μὲν ἀπεστέρησθε, σιωπῶ· ἀλλʼ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ τὴν εἰρήνην ποιήσασθαι, πόσʼ ἐξηπάτησθε, πόσων ἀπεστέρησθε.

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On the Chersonese

1. Some such words seem necessary to avoid a contradiction. The Greek is probably corrupt, though the same reading is found in Dem. 10.65 .

Demosthenes On the Chersonese 63

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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