[68]
But the
stroke of good fortune I have in mind is peculiar to him and has befallen no
other man. What is it? It is that, when he needed scoundrels for his purposes,
he found bigger scoundrels than he wanted. For surely that is a fair description
of the men who deceived you, hiring themselves out for lies which Philip, in
spite of the great interests at issue, did not dare to tell on his own account,
which he never wrote in any letter or put into the mouth of ambassadors of his
own.
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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