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Hence today the Thebans have been partially successful in recovering
territory, but have failed lamentably to win honor and glory; for they would
presumably have gained nothing if Philip had not passed Thermopylae. That was not what they
wanted, but they put up with it all because they had the will, though not the
power, to grasp Orchomenus and
Coronea.
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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