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And so today you have
no need to send a mission to Peloponnesus, to make a long journey, or to pay travelling
expenses; you have only to advance one by one to this platform, and there cast a
just and a righteous vote for your country's sake against the man who, having at
the outset, as I described to you, spoken so eloquently about Marathon and
Salamis, about battles and
victories, from the moment he set foot on Macedonian soil contradicted his own
utterances, forbade you to remember the example of your forefathers, or recall
old victories, or carry succor to your friends, or take common counsel with the
Greeks, and well-nigh bade you to dismantle the defences of your city.
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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