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However,
that was not my reason. Then why am I accusing you? Perhaps as a common
informer, to get money out of you? Which course was more profitable for me, to
take money from Philip, who offered me a great deal,—as much as he
gave them,—and so to make friends both with him and with
them,—for indeed I might have had their friendship if I had been their
accomplice, and even now there is no vendetta between us, only that I had no
part in their malpractices, or to levy blackmail on their takings, and so incur
Philip's enmity and theirs; to spend all my money on the ransom of captives, and
then expect to get a trifle back dishonorably and at the cost of their
hostility?
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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