[41]
You see that,
before he got his peace, he covenanted that, if you should make alliance with
him as well, he would specify in writing the great benefits that he would confer
on Athens. But now that both peace
and alliance are concluded, he says that he does not know what he can do to
oblige you, but that, if you will tell him, he will do anything “that
is consistent with his own honor and reputation”—taking
refuge in this saving clause, and leaving himself a loophole in case you make
any proposal or are induced to ask any favor.
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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