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It is because they want the natural
anger that you would feel at any sufferings in the war to be diverted against
your wisest counsellors, so that you may bring them to trial instead of
punishing Philip, and that they may themselves be the accusers instead of paying
the penalty for their present wrong-doings. That is the meaning of their
suggestion that there is a party among you that desires war, and that that is
the question you now have to decide.1
1 διαδικασία is a lawsuit between rival claimants to an estate, etc. The war-party and the peace-party are here rival claimants for the votes of the Athenians.
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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