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But
they are in luck, because they can make the most of your supineness, which
prefers to take no advantage even of your due rights.The greatest humiliation, however, that we have suffered is that all
the other Greeks and barbarians dread your enmity, but these upstarts1 alone can make you despise yourselves,
sometimes by persuasion, sometimes by force, as if Abdera or Maronea,2 and not Athens, were the scene of their political
activities.
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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