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“therefore be it
resolved by the Council and People of Athens, after offering prayers and sacrifices to the gods
and heroes who guard the city and country of the Athenians, and after taking
into consideration their ancestors' merits, in that they ranked the
preservation of the liberties of Greece above the claims of their own state, that two
hundred ships be launched, and that the Admiral sail into the Straits of
Thermopylae, and that
the General and commander of the cavalry march out with the infantry and
cavalry to Eleusis; also that
ambassadors be sent to the other Greeks, but first of all to the Thebans,
because Philip is nearest to their territory,”
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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