[58]
But I am absolutely certain that, without
waiting for any Athenian to propose a declaration of war, Philip is in
possession of much of our territory and has just dispatched a force against
Cardia. If, however, we like to pretend that he is not at war with us, he would
be the greatest fool alive if he tried to disprove that.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.