Demosthenes, For the People of Megalopolis, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 14

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[14] Then there is another argument that astonishes me; that if we make an alliance with the Arcadians and act upon it, our city will seem to be changing its policy and breaking faith. For to me, men of Athens , the exact opposite seems to be the case. How so? Because I do not think any one man would deny that Athens has saved the Lacedaemonians, and the Thebans before them, and the Euboeans recently,¹ and has afterwards made alliance with them, having always one and the same object in view.

For the People of Megalopolis. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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For the People of Megalopolis (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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ὑπὲρ Μεγαλοπολιτῶν Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 14 focus

[14] θαυμάζω τοίνυν καὶ τῶν λεγόντων τοῦτον τὸν λόγον, ὡς εἰ συμμάχους ποιησόμεθʼ Ἀρκάδας καὶ ταῦτα πράξομεν, μεταβάλλεσθαι δόξει καὶ οὐδὲν ἔχειν πιστὸν ἡ πόλις. ἐμοὶ μὲν γὰρ δοκεῖ τοὐναντίον, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι. διὰ τί; ὅτι τῶν πάντων οὐδένʼ ἂν ἀντειπεῖν οἴομαι ὡς οὐ καὶ Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ πρότερον Θηβαίους καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον Εὐβοέας ἔσωσεν ἡ πόλις, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα συμμάχους ἐποιήσατο, ἕν τι καὶ ταὔτʼ ἀεὶ βουλομένη πράττειν.

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For the People of Megalopolis

1. The references are to the battle of Mantinea (362), the alliance with Thebes against Sparta in 378, and the deliverance of Euboea from the Thebans in 357.

Demosthenes For the People of Megalopolis 14

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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