This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
[14]
Then there
is another argument that astonishes me; that if we make an alliance with the
Arcadians and act upon it, our city will seem to be changing its policy and
breaking faith. For to me, men of Athens, the exact opposite seems to be the case. How so?
Because I do not think any one man would deny that Athens has saved the Lacedaemonians, and
the Thebans before them, and the Euboeans recently,1 and has afterwards made alliance with them, having
always one and the same object in view.
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.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.