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And well may you, in my view, men of Athens,
for this turn of events be grateful to the gods and detest these men.1 For the fact that they see the democracy of
Rhodes, which used to address you much more
presumptuously than these, now become your suppliant, I consider a piece of good fortune
for the State; but that these stupid men should neither consider this, though it is so
plain to see, nor that you have often gone to the rescue of them one after another, and
that you have been put to more trouble rectifying the errors of their rashness and
infatuation, whenever they have chosen to make war on their own account, than in managing
your own affairs, might well have aroused in you the profoundest wrath, it seems to me.
1 Chians and Byzantines.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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