Demosthenes, On the Crown, Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator), 96

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[96] When the Lacedaemonians, men of Athens , had the supremacy of land and sea, and were holding with governors and garrisons all the frontiers of Attica , Euboea , Tanagra , all Boeotia , Megara , Aegina , Ceos , and the other islands, for at that time Athens had no ships and no walls, you marched out to Haliartus,¹ and again a few days later to Corinth . The Athenians of those days had good reason to bear malice against the Corinthians and the Thebans for their conduct during the Decelean War; but they bore no malice whatever.

On the Crown. Demosthenes. Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1926.

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On the Crown (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. II: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione, XVIII, XIX. Vince, C. A. and Vince, J. H., translators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926 (1939 reprint).)

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ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ στεφάνου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 96 focus

[96] ὑμεῖς τοίνυν, ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, Λακεδαιμονίων γῆς καὶ θαλάττης ἀρχόντων καὶ τὰ κύκλῳ τῆς Ἀττικῆς κατεχόντων ἁρμοσταῖς καὶ φρουραῖς, Εὔβοιαν, Τάναγραν, τὴν Βοιωτίαν ἅπασαν, Μέγαρα, Αἴγιναν, Κέω, τὰς ἄλλας νήσους, οὐ ναῦς, οὐ τείχη τῆς πόλεως τότε κεκτημένης, ἐξήλθετʼ εἰς Ἁλίαρτον καὶ πάλιν οὐ πολλαῖς ἡμέραις ὕστερον εἰς Κόρινθον, τῶν τότʼ Ἀθηναίων πόλλʼ ἂν ἐχόντων μνησικακῆσαι καὶ Κορινθίοις καὶ Θηβαίοις τῶν περὶ τὸν Δεκελεικὸν πόλεμον πραχθέντων· ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐποίουν τοῦτο, οὐδʼ ἐγγύς.

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On the Crown

1. Haliartus, 395 B.C.; Corinth , 394 B.C.; Decelean war, the last period, 4l3-404, of the Peloponnesian war, when the Spartans held the fortified position of Decelea in Attica .

Demosthenes On the Crown 96

Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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