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16.1Both sides seem to be in error, men of
16.4Now no one would deny that our city is benefited by the weakness of the Lacedaemonians and of the Thebans yonder. note The position of affairs, then, if one may judge from statements repeatedly made in your Assembly, is such that the Thebans will be weakened by the refounding of
16.6But perhaps we shall admit that that is how matters ought to stand, but feel that it is monstrous to choose as our allies the men whose ranks we faced at
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