Demosthenes, On Organization, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 34

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[34] I, however, would advise you—do not be angry with me—either to humble yourselves and be content to mind your own affairs, or else to get ready a more powerful force. If I felt sure that you were Siphnians or Cythnians¹ or people of that sort, I should counsel you to be less proud, but since you are Athenians, I urge you to get your force ready. For it would be a disgrace, men of Athens , a disgrace to desert that post of honor which your ancestors bequeathed to you.

On Organization. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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On Organization (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 συντάξεως Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 34 focus

[34] ἐγὼ δὲ παραινέσαιμʼ ἂν ὑμῖν (καί μοι μηδὲν ὀργισθῆτε) ἔλαττον φρονεῖν καὶ τὰ ὑμέτερʼ αὐτῶν ἀγαπᾶν πράττοντας, ἢ μείζω δύναμιν παρασκευάζεσθαι. εἰ μὲν οὖν Σιφνίοις ἢ Κυθνίοις ἤ τισιν ἄλλοις τοιούτοις οὖσι συνῄδειν ὑμῖν, ἔλαττον φρονεῖν συνεβούλευον ἄν· ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἔστʼ Ἀθηναῖοι, τὸ τὴν δύναμιν παρασκευάσασθαι παραινῶ· αἰσχρὸν γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, αἰσχρὸν λιπεῖν τὴν τοῦ φρονήματος τάξιν, ἣν ὑμῖν οἱ πρόγονοι παρέδωκαν.

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On Organization

1. Siphnos and Cythnos are two of the Cyclades , S.E. of Athens . Perhaps the speaker remembered the retort of Themistocles to the man of Seriphos ( Plut. Them. 18 ).

Demosthenes On Organization 34

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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