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Those men single-handed twice repulsed by land and sea the
expedition assembled out of the whole of Asia,1 and at their individual risks established themselves as the authors of
the joint salvation of all the Greeks. And though what I shall say next has been
said before by many another, still even at this date those dead must not be
deprived of their just and excellent praise. For I say that with good reason
those men might be judged so far superior to those who campaigned against Troy,
that the latter, the foremost princes out of the whole of Greece, with
difficulty captured a single stronghold of Asia after besieging it for ten
years,2
1 King Darius of Persia was repulsed at Marathon, 490, and Xerxes at Salamis, 480 B.C. The Persian wars are discussed at length in Plat. Menex. 239d ff.
2 Blass notes this sentiment in Isoc. 4.83. It is found also in Hyp. 35.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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