Demosthenes For the People of Megalopolis 21

ed. Samuel Henry Butcher

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[21] πολὺ δὴ κάλλιον καὶ ἄμεινον τὴν μὲν Θηβαίων συμμαχίαν αὐτοὺς παραλαβεῖν, τῇ δὲ Λακεδαιμονίων πλεονεξίᾳ μὴ ʼπιτρέψαι, ἢ νῦν ὀκνοῦντας μὴ τοὺς Θηβαίων σώσωμεν συμμάχους, τούτους μὲν προέσθαι, πάλιν δὲ σῴζειν αὐτοὺς τοὺς Θηβαίους, καὶ προσέτʼ ἐν φόβῳ καθεστάναι περὶ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν.

For the People of Megalopolis. Demosthenes. ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Oxford. 1903.

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ὑπὲρ Μεγαλοπολιτῶν (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.)

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For the People of Megalopolis Perseus (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).) — 21 focus

[21] Surely it is more honorable and satisfactory that we should win the alliance of the Thebans on our own account and resist Spartan ambition, than that we should shrink from rescuing the allies of Thebes and abandon them now, only to rescue the Thebans in the end, and to be kept moreover in perpetual alarm for ourselves.

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