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But no; you cannot,
men of Athens, you cannot have done
wrongly when you accepted the risks of war for the redemption and the liberties
of mankind; I swear it by our forefathers who bore the brunt of warfare at
Marathon, who stood in array of battle at Plataea, who fought in the sea-fights of Salamis and Artemisium, and by all the brave men
who repose in our public sepulchres, buried there by a country that accounted
them all to be alike worthy of the same honor —all, I say, Aeschines,
not the successful and the victorious alone. So justice bids: for by all the
duty of brave men was accomplished: their fortune was such as Heaven severally
allotted to them.
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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