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Now therefore, while the danger is in the
future and is gathering head, while we can still hear one another speak, I want
to remind each one of you, however clearly he knows it, who it is that persuaded
you to abandon the Phocians and Thermopylae, the command of which gave Philip the command also
of the road to Attica and the
Peloponnesus, and who it is that
has forced you to take counsel, not for your rights and interests abroad, but
for your possessions here at home and for the war in Attica, a war which will bring distress on
every one of us, when it does come, but which really dates from that very day.
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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