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Yet what is wanting to crown his insolence? Not content with the
destruction of cities, is he not organizing the Pythian games, the common
festival of the Greeks, and if he cannot be present in person, sending his
menials to act as stewards? [Is he not master of Thermopylae and the passes into
Greece, holding those places with
his garrisons and his mercenaries? Has he not the right of precedence at the
Oracle, ousting us and the Thessalians and the Dorians and the rest of the
Amphictyons from a privilege which not even all Greek states can
claim?]
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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