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I did; and I need not argue how
profitable my policy was, for you know it by experience. The war in which we
then engaged, apart from the renown it brought to you, made all the necessaries
of life more abundant and cheaper than the peace we now enjoy, the peace which
these worthies cherish to the disadvantage of the city, in view of future
expectations! May those expectations fail! May they share only the blessings for
which you men of honest intent supplicate the gods! And may they never bestow
upon you any share in the principles they have chosen! Now read of the crowns of
the Byzantines and of the Perinthians, conferred by them upon the city for these
services.
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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