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but you should refuse to defend with vigor
those advantages which they justly won and bequeathed to you; what a disgrace if
one, with only the tradition of Macedonia behind him, so cheerfully courts danger that, in the
task of extending his sway, he has been wounded in every limb on the
battle-field, but Athenians, whose ancestral boast it is in war to yield to none
and conquer all, should renounce, through indolence or cowardice, alike the
deeds of their ancestors and the interests of their fatherland.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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