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Such was his speech on
that occasion; a noble speech, worthy of our Athenian traditions. But after he
had visited Macedonia, and beheld his
own enemy and the enemy of all Greece,
did his language bear the slightest resemblance to those utterances? Not in the
least: he bade you not to remember your forefathers, not to talk about trophies,
not to carry succor to anybody. As for the people who recommended you to consult
the Greeks on the terms of peace with Philip, he was amazed at the suggestion
that it was necessary that any foreigner should be convinced when the questions
were purely domestic.
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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