On the recordc. 349 BC
You can not surely allege, that Aristodemus ought to be of importance at Athens, and Athens to be of no account among the Greeks.
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Demosthenes
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gutenberg.orgDemosthenes: “You can not surely allege, that Aristodemus ought to be of importance at Athens, and Athens to be of no account among…”
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Demosthenes rhetorically challenges the notion that an individual like Aristodemus should hold more importance in Athens than Athens itself holds among the Greek states.
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