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Then again I think that you must bear this
in mind, that if you reject the Megalopolitans and they are overthrown and
decentralized,1 the Lacedaemonians can at once be a great power, or if they
do escape destruction—for such miracles have happened before
now—they are bound to be the staunch friends of Thebes; but if you accept them as allies,
Megalopolis will indeed owe
its immediate deliverance to you, but we must put on one side all calculation of
risk, and consider what will be the effect upon our relations with Thebes and Sparta.
1 By destroying their metropolis and compelling them to live in scattered and unwalled villages.
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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