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For suppose someone should ask Philip,
“Tell me, which would you prefer? That the troops now serving with
Diopithes, whatever their character may be”—for I am not
discussing that—“should prosper and win credit at Athens and grow in numbers with the
co-operation of the government, or that a few accusers and detractors should
cause them to be broken up and destroyed?” I think he would choose the
latter. And what Philip would pray the gods to vouchsafe him, are some of us
here trying to compass? And do you still ask how our interests are sacrificed
everywhere?
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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