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Not so behaved Niceratus, the beloved son of Nicias, though
he was himself physically an utter weakling. Not so behaved Euctemon, the son of
Aesion, nor Euthydemus, the son of Stratocles. Each of these men had made the
gift of a war-galley, yet did not run away from the campaign in this way. Each,
as an act of grace and a free gift, supplied the State with a ship ready for
sea, and where the law of the State assigned them their posts, there each
insisted on giving his personal service.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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