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In all the Greek states—not in
some but in every one of them—it chanced that there had sprung up the
most abundant crop of traitorous, venal, and profligate politicians ever known
within the memory of mankind. These persons Philip adopted as his satellites and
accomplices. The disposition of Greeks towards one another was already vicious
and quarrelsome and he made it worse. Some he cajoled; some he bribed; some he
corrupted in every possible way. He split them into many factions, although all
had one common interest—to thwart his aggrandizement.
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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