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To resume my argument: I ask you,
Aeschines, what was the duty of Athens when she perceived that Philip's purpose was to
establish a despotic empire over all Greece? What language, what counsels, were incumbent upon an
adviser of the people at Athens, of
all places in the world, when I was conscious that, from the dawn of her history
to the day when I first ascended the tribune, our country had ever striven for
primacy, and honor, and renown, and that to serve an honor able ambition and the
common welfare of Greece she had
expended her treasure and the lives of her sons far more generously than any
other Hellenic state fighting only for itself;
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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