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We could count1 on the Olynthians with their considerable
resources; and the position of affairs was that Philip did not trust them, nor
they Philip. We had negotiated a peace with them that hampered Philip sorely;
for here was a powerful state, reconciled to us and watching for him to give
them an opening. We thought that we ought by all means to embroil them with him;
and what was then common talk has today somehow or other come to pass.
1 The change to the past tense is made more abrupt by the omission of connecting particles in three successive sentences. Demosthenes is telling off on his fingers the advantages which the Athenians already had before the debate began.
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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