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When the Phocian war began—not by my fault, for I was still outside
politics—you were at first disposed to hope that the Phocians would
escape ruin, although you knew that they were in the wrong, and to exult over
any misfortune that might befall the Thebans, with whom you were justly and
reasonably indignant because of the immoderate use they had made of the
advantage they gained at Leuctra. The Peloponnesus was divided. The enemies of the Lacedaemonians
were not strong enough to destroy them; and the aristocrats whom the
Lacedaemonians had put into power had lost control of the several states. In
those states and everywhere else there was indiscriminate strife and confusion.
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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