[18]
For
if the Argives and Messenians and Megalopolitans, and other Peloponnesians who
side with them, quarrel with us because of our embassy to Sparta and because they think that we have
some interest in Lacedaemonian policy; and if the Thebans are, as people admit,
hostile and likely to be even more so, because we offer an asylum to their
exiles and make no disguise of our hostility to them in every way;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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