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Your deliverance of the island was a
generous act, but still more generously, when you had their lives and their
cities at your mercy, you restored them honestly to men who had sinned against
you, forgetting your wrongs where you found yourselves trusted. I pass over ten
thousand instances I could cite,—battles by sea, expeditions by land,
campaigns of ancient date and of our own times, in all of which Athens engaged herself for the freedom and
salvation of Greece.
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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