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the Thebans he is now misleading, having
handed over Boeotia to them and
relieved them of a long and trying war. So each of these states has reaped some
benefit from him; some of them have already paid the penalty, as all men know;
the rest will pay it whenever the day of reckoning comes. As for you, I say
nothing of your losses [in war],1 but in the very act of
accepting the peace, how completely you were deceived, how grievously you were
robbed!
1 Some such words seem necessary to avoid a contradiction. The Greek is probably corrupt, though the same reading is found in Dem. 10.65.
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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