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so that you may either voluntarily submit
to wrong, making the wrongdoer a free gift of your submission, or having
definitely resolved to put justice before all other claims, may pursue your own
interests, clear from all reproach, without further hesitation. But from the
very terms of the compact and from the oaths which ratified the general peace,
you may at once see who are its transgressors; and that those transgressions are
serious, I will prove to you concisely.
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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