This text is part of:
[11]
For I suppose he learns from history and from report that your
ancestors, when they might, at the price of submission to the Great King, have
become the paramount power in Greece,
not only refused to entertain that proposal, conveyed to them by Alexander, an
ancestor of Philip's line, but chose to quit their homes and endure every
hardship, and thereafter wrought those deeds which all men are always eager to
relate, though no one has ever been able to tell them worthily; and therefore I
shall not be wrong in passing them over, for they are indeed great beyond any
man's power of speech. On the other hand, he learns that the ancestors of these
Thebans and Argives either fought for the barbarians or did not fight against
them.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.