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If there is anyone among them who can be described as experienced in war and
battle, I was told that Philip from jealousy keeps all such in the background,
because he wants to have the credit himself of every action, among his many
faults being an insatiable ambition. Any fairly decent or honest man, who cannot
stomach the licentiousness of his daily life, the drunkenness and the lewd
dancing, is pushed aside as of no account.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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