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    Demosthenes, Speeches 1-10

    On the Chersonese

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    [34] As it is, by persuasive arts and caresses they have brought you to such a frame of mind that in your assemblies you are elated by their flattery and have no ear but for compliments, while in your policy and your practice you are at this moment running the gravest risks. For tell me, in Heaven's name, if the Greeks should call you to account for the opportunities that your carelessness has already thrown away, and should question you thus:


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    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    335 [Leading Verb Perfect:]: nun de dêmagôgountes humas kai charizomenoi kath' huperbolên, houtô diatethêkasin hôste kthe

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    Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
    OCLC: 10903499
    ISBN: 0674992636

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