That you have always determined to choofe
the moft honourable Meafures, and that we have received
better Terms from the Conqueror, than the other Grecian
States, who imagined they could fix their future Happinefs by
abandoning the Fate of Athens, I afcribe to the good Fortune
of the Republic i but that we have encountered fome dreadful
Accidents, and have not always been in our Defigns,
I conceive to be that Proportion allotted to the Commonwealth
in the general Calamities of Greece.
the moft honourable Meafures, and that we have received
better Terms from the Conqueror, than the other Grecian
States, who imagined they could fix their future Happinefs by
abandoning the Fate of Athens, I afcribe to the good Fortune
of the Republic i but that we have encountered fome dreadful
Accidents, and have not always been in our Defigns,
I conceive to be that Proportion allotted to the Commonwealth
in the general Calamities of Greece.
Demosthenes - Orations - v2
