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Then would it not be discreditable, men of Athens, if when the commons of Argos feared not the authority of the
Lacedaemonians in the day of their might, you, who are Athenians, should fear
one who is at once a barbarian and a woman? Indeed, the Argives might have
pleaded that they had often been defeated by the Lacedaemonians, but you have
beaten the King again and again, and have never been beaten either by his slaves
or by their master himself; for if ever the King has gained some slight
advantage over our city, he has done it by bribing the most worthless of the
Greeks, the traitors to their cause, and never in any other way.
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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