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That was the time, Athenians, when the
Spartans, once famous through the leaders in whose ways they had been schooled,
came humbly to our city and begged our ancestors to save them; and the democracy
which they had overthrown was made by the counsellors, whom we then had, the
first power in Greece again:
deservedly, in my belief; for they had found generals of the type I have just
mentioned and had as advisers Archinus and Cephalus of Collytus.1 For the only
salvation of a city or a nation is to find brave men to lead it and wise
counsellors.
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