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But what is to be the result for you? In the first place, that your
allies may be kept loyal, not by maintaining garrisons among them, but by making
their interests identical with yours; next, that our generals may not lead
mercenaries to the plunder of our allies without even coming in sight of the
enemy, so that the profit is all their own, while the State at large incurs the
hatred and the abuse, but that they may have their own citizens at their back,
and may so deal with our enemies as they now deal with our friends.
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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