[76] How skilfully, as your commander, he drew up your ranks at
Thebes
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to face the whole power of the
Peloponnese
, how he slew Gorgopas in
Aegina
, what trophies he set up in
Cyprus
and afterwards in
Egypt
, how he visited, I might almost say, every land, yet nowhere disgraced our city’s name or his own—of all these exploits it is by no means easy to speak adequately, and it would be a great shame if my words should make them fall below the estimate of him which each one of you has formed in his own mind. But of some, which I think I could never belittle in describing them, I will try to remind you.
Against Leptines. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.
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