[74] For you know, of course, that the famous Timotheus
1
once harangued you to the effect that you ought to send an expedition to save the Euboeans, when the Thebans were trying to enslave them, and his words ran something like this:
Tell me, he said,
when you have got the Thebans in the island, are you deliberating how you will deal with them and what you ought to do? Will you not cover the sea with your war-galleys, men of
Athens
? Will you not rise up at once and march down to the
Piraeus
and drag them down the slips?
On the Chersonese. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.
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