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They saw also
that my resources were by now exhausted, that the state was neglectful of them,
that our allies were in need, and the generals not to be depended on, and that
they had been deceived by the words of many of them; and they knew that the term
of my trierarchy had expired and that their voyage was not to be homeward and
that no successor had arrived to take command from whom they could expect any
relief. For the more ambitious I had been to man my ship with good rowers, by so
much was the desertion from me greater than from the other trierarchs.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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