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For my part, whenever I see a man afraid of one who dwells at
Susa and Ecbatana and insisting that he is ill-disposed
to Athens, though he helped to
restore our fortunes in the past and was even now making overtures to us1（and if
you did not accept them but voted their rejection, the fault is not
his）; and when I find the same man using very different language about
this plunderer of the Greeks, who is extending his power, as you see, at our
very doors and in the heart of Greece,
I am astonished, and, whoever he may be, it is I that fear him, just because he
does not fear Philip.
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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