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For if you had not been hoodwinked then,
there would be no anxiety in Athens,
because Philip could never, of course, have gained command of the sea and
reached Attica with his fleet, nor
could he have marched past Thermopylae and Phocis, but either he would have acted fairly
and observed the Peace by keeping quiet, or he would have been instantly engaged
in a war similar to that which made him so anxious for the Peace.
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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