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You must
know that Philip was already sounding us all in this way: he sent private
messages to each of us in turn, with the offer, men of Athens, of a really large sum in gold.
Having failed in some case or other,—in what case let the result
disclose; it is not for me to name myself,—he conceived that a
collective present might be accepted by all of us without misgiving; and that
there would be security for those who had individually sold themselves, if we
all shared even to a trifling extent in the general acceptance. Accordingly it
was offered,—nominally, as a form of hospitality.
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