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Thus did our
ancestors; but as for us, who have gained, as you all see, a clear field,
consider whether we can match them. Have we not wasted more than fifteen hundred
talents on the needy communities of Greece?1 Have we not squandered our private estates,
our public funds, and the contributions of our allies? Have not the allies
gained in war been lost in the peace?
1 No one knows to what this refers; but the passage is only a parody of the Third Olynthiac.
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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