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but for my part, so far from
admitting that in acting thus he is not observing the peace with you, I assert
that when he lays hands on Megara,
sets up tyrannies in Euboea, makes his
way, as now, into Thrace, hatches plots
in the Peloponnese, and carries out all
operations with his armed force, he is breaking the peace and making war upon
you—unless you are prepared to say that men who bring up the
siege-engines are keeping the peace until they actually bring them to bear on
the walls. But you will not admit that; for he who makes and devises the means
by which I may be captured is at war with me, even though he has not yet hurled
a javelin or shot a bolt.
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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