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Yet if
I had really intrigued with Philip to stop a Panhellenic coalition, it was your
business not to hold your peace, but to cry aloud, to protest, to inform the
people. You did nothing of the sort. No one ever heard that fine voice of yours.
Of course not; for at that time there was no embassy visiting any of the Greek
states, but all the states had long ago been sounded, and there is not an honest
word in his whole story.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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