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The policy of the
Lacedaemonians seems to me to be very sharp practice. For they now say that
Elis ought to receive parts of
Triphylia, and Phlius the district of Tricaranum, and certain Arcadian tribes
the land belonging to them, and that we ought to have Oropus, not because they
want to see each of us enjoying our own, far from it—（that
would be a tardy exhibition of philanthropy）—
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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