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What remains then, men of Athens, but to help them with all your
power and energy? I see no alternative. For, quite apart from the disgrace that
we should incur if we shirk our responsibilities, I see not a little danger, men
of Athens, for the future, if the
Thebans maintain their present attitude towards us, and the Phocians have come
to the end of their money, and there is nothing to hinder Philip, when he has
crushed his present foe, from turning his arms against Attica.
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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