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what season1 of the year is upon us—the season at which
certain people think it their duty to keep the Hellespont clear of you and hand it over to Philip? What if he
quits Thrace and never approaches the
Chersonese or
Byzantium—for you must take that also into your
reckoning—but turns up at Chalcis and Megara,
just as he did at Oreus not long ago? Will it be better to make our stand here
and let the war spread to Attica, or to
contrive some employment for him away yonder? I prefer the latter.
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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