[43]
Personally I am surprised that none of you, Athenians, is distressed and angry
to find that at the beginning of the war our aim was to punish Philip, but at
the end it is to escape injury at his hands. But surely it is obvious that he
will not stop, unless someone stops him. And is that what we are to wait for? Do
you fancy that all is well, if you dispatch an unmanned fleet and the vague hope
of some deliverer?
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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