There can be no possible question that it is to the interest of the city that both the Spartans and these Thebans should be weak.
DemosthenesSource: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, Volume 1
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There can be no possible question that it is to the interest of the city that both the Spartans and these Thebans should be weak.
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