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Ay, and you know this also, that the wrongs which the
Greeks suffered from the Lacedaemonians or from us, they suffered at all events
at the hands of true-born sons of Greece, and they might have been regarded as the acts of a
legitimate son, born to great possessions, who should be guilty of some fault or
error in the management of his estate: so far he would deserve blame and
reproach, yet it could not be said that it was not one of the blood, not the
lawful heir who was acting thus.
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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