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Impossible! For indeed he would be the
most fatuous man on earth if, when you, his victims, charge him with no crime,
but throw the blame on some of your own fellow-citizens, he should compose your
mutual differences and jealousies, and invite you to turn them against himself,
and should deprive his own hirelings of the excuses with which they put you off,
saying that at any rate it is not Philip who is making war on Athens.
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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