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For I should never myself have
consented to serve on the embassy, nor would you, I am sure, have suspended
military operations, if you had imagined that Philip after securing peace would
act as he has done; but his words at the time were very different from his
present actions. Yes, and there are others who ought to be called upon. Whom do
I mean? The men who, when peace was made and when I, returning from the second
embassy—that sent to administer the oaths—found that the
state was being imposed upon, and spoke out and protested and refused to give up
Thermopylae and the
Phocians—
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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