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can cite an instance that is familiar to you all. The Greeks have two
treaties1 with the King, one made by our city and commended by all; and
the later one made by the Lacedaemonians, which is of course condemned by all;
and in these two treaties rights are diversely defined. Of private rights within
a state, the laws of that state grant an equal and impartial share to all, weak
and strong alike; but the international rights of Greek states are defined by
the strong for the weak.
1 The first is probably the so-called peace of Callias about 448; the second is certainly that of Antalcidas in 387.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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