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Yet your hegemony in Greece lasted seventy-five years, that of Sparta twenty-nine, and in these later
times Thebes too gained some sort of
authority after the battle of Leuctra. But neither to you nor to the Thebans nor
to the Lacedaemonians did the Greeks ever yet, men of Athens, concede the right of unrestricted
action, or anything like it.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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