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But further,
with regard to any acts which they say the Megalopolitans have committed for the
sake of the Thebans somewhat against your interests, it is ridiculous to make
these now the count of an indictment, but when they want to become friends and
make you some reparation, to look askance at them and devise means of preventing
this, and not to realize that the more zealous they show themselves to have been
in the cause of the Thebans, the more justly would these very speakers incur
your anger, if they deprived the city of such useful allies, when they came to
you before applying to Thebes.
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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