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It is shocking and scandalous, men of Athens, that Philip has such an acute
perception of the fidelity or treachery of the men who have made subservience to
him their policy, that they all expect that nothing they do even in Athens will escape the master's eye, as
though he stood at their very elbow, and that they must needs choose their
private friends and enemies in obedience to his wishes; while those whose lives
are devoted to your service, and who covet and have never betrayed the honor
that you can bestow, encounter in you such dullness of hearing, such darkness of
vision, that here am I today contending on equal terms with these pernicious
persons, even in a court well acquainted with the whole history.
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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