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Surely it is more
honorable and satisfactory that we should win the alliance of the Thebans on our
own account and resist Spartan ambition, than that we should shrink from
rescuing the allies of Thebes and
abandon them now, only to rescue the Thebans in the end, and to be kept moreover
in perpetual alarm for ourselves.
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