[6]
Well, what is done cannot be undone; but now comes the
opportunity of another war. That was why I have referred to the past, that you
may not make the same mistake again. What use, men of Athens, are we to make of our opportunity?
For if you do not send help “in full muster, whereto your power shall
extend,”1 observe how all your generalship will make for Philip's
success.
1 As Sandys has noted,the phrase is probably a formula borrowed from the actual text of the treaty.
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