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I,
however, would advise you—do not be angry with me—either to
humble yourselves and be content to mind your own affairs, or else to get ready
a more powerful force. If I felt sure that you were Siphnians or Cythnians1 or people of that sort, I should
counsel you to be less proud, but since you are Athenians, I urge you to get
your force ready. For it would be a disgrace, men of Athens, a disgrace to desert that post of
honor which your ancestors bequeathed to you.
1 Siphnos and Cythnos are two of the Cyclades, S.E. of Athens. Perhaps the speaker remembered the retort of Themistocles to the man of Seriphos （Plut. Them. 18）.
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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