Demosthenes, Volumen13W. Blackwood and Sons, 1877 - 174 páginas |
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Página 116 - Lacedaemonians became masters and succeeded to your empire, on their attempting to encroach and make oppressive innovations, a general war was declared against them, even by such as had no cause of complaint. But wherefore mention other people ? We ourselves and the Lacedaemonians, although at the outset we could not allege any mutual injuries, thought proper to make war for the injustice that we saw done to our neighbours.
Página 115 - ... and similar matters, which I might dwell upon, I pass over. But I observe that all people, beginning with you, have conceded to him a right, which in former times has been the subject of contest in every Grecian war. And what is this ? The right of doing what he pleases, openly fleecing and pillaging the Greeks, one after another, attacking and enslaving their cities. You were at the head of the Greeks for seventy-three...
Página 118 - The favourable moments for enterprise, which fortune frequently offers to the careless against the vigilant, to them that will do nothing against those that discharge all their duty, could not be bought from orators or generals ; no more could mutual concord, nor distrust of tyrants and barbarians, nor anything of the kind.
Página 143 - I affirm that if the future had been apparent to us all, — if you, /Eschines, had foretold it and proclaimed it at the top of your voice instead of preserving total silence, — nevertheless the State ought not to have deviated from her course, if she had regard to her own honor, the traditions of the past, or the judgment of posterity.