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I do not, however, suggest that you should
invite the rest, unless you are ready to do for yourselves what is necessary;
for it would be futile to abandon our own interests and pretend that we are
protecting those of others, or to overlook the present dangers and alarm our
neighbors with dangers to come. That is not my meaning. But I do contend that we
must send supplies to the forces in the Chersonese and satisfy all their demands, and while we make
preparation ourselves, we must summon, collect, instruct, and exhort the rest of
the Greeks. That is the duty of a city with a reputation such as yours enjoys.
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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