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And even that success has not benefited him, but you
will find him at one and the same time using the Lacedaemonians to cripple our
city, and struggling for his own crown against Clearchus and Cyrus.1 So he has never beaten
us in the field, nor have his intrigues gained him any advantage. I observe that
some of you are wont to dismiss Philip as a person of no account, but to speak
with awe of the King as formidable to those whom he marks as his enemies. If we
are not to stand up to the one because he is contemptible, and if we yield to
the other because he is formidable, against whom, Athenians, shall we ever
marshal our forces?
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