The book The Oration of Demosthenes On the Crown was written by author Champlin, J. T. (James Tift), 1811-1882 Here you can read free online of The Oration of Demosthenes On the Crown book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Oration of Demosthenes On the Crown a good or bad book?
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For the attrac- tions which Athens presented to visitors, see Isoc Panegyr. pp. 49 and 50. — hoU ravra] A phrase of frequent occur- rence in Greek, and corresponding precisely to our phrase « and that too." See § 282, n. 202. iaxvQW yerofjuiKov] " becoming powerful," i. e. the most powerful tribe in Greece. Alluding to the state of things after the Peloponnesian war, when the Lacedemonians enjoyed an ascendency in power over all the other tribes ; which, however, as already mentioned, they lost... at Leuctra in a contest with Thebes. Now, even under these circumstan- ces, as Demosthenes says, when Athens was but a secondary power, she never would relinquish the right of taking the NOTES. 217 lead of the other tribes in all straggles affecting the interests of the Greeks generally. Reference is here made to the ^fefAOPia or precedency^ or leading, of which so much is said in Athenian history. — fAsra .... nQoeatafai] ** that this would ha^e gladly been given to the city with many thanks^ yiz.
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