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For I cannot
regard it as a pledge of our security, that the Lacedaemonians should seize
Megalopolis and grow great
once more, seeing as I do that even now they have not taken up arms to avenge an
injury, but to recover the power that once was theirs; and what their ambition
was in the day of their power, you know perhaps better than I, and will distrust
them accordingly.
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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