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At last Philo, one of the ambassadors, made a speech
that deserved to have been spoken by your representatives, men of Athens, instead of by the spokesman of
Thebes. He said that he was
delighted and gratified to find Philip so courteously and generously inclined
towards them; that they were already his friends and guests, without those
gifts; would he be good enough to direct his benevolence to the public business
on which he was engaged, and do something creditable both to himself and to the
Thebans? If so, they could promise him the friendship of all Thebes as well as their own.
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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