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For you know, of course, that the
famous Timotheus1 once
harangued you to the effect that you ought to send an expedition to save the
Euboeans, when the Thebans were trying to enslave them, and his words ran
something like this: “Tell me,” he said, “when you
have got the Thebans in the island, are you deliberating how you will deal with
them and what you ought to do? Will you not cover the sea with your war-galleys,
men of Athens? Will you not rise up
at once and march down to the Piraeus and drag them down the slips?”
1 One of the most successful of the Athenian generals, from 378 till his eclipse in 354, when he was condemned and fined for failure in the Social War. His intimacy with Isocrates had made him also an effective speaker. His biography is included in the collection of Cornelius Nepos. The occasion here referred to is the Euboean expedition of 357, when Demosthenes served as trierarch.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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