[109]
No, indeed; they
have made friendship, and promise to make alliance, with you,—you who
of all men in the world would be most delighted to kill Philip's friends or even
Philip himself. When mere Olynthians know how to provide for the morrow, will
not you, who are Athenians, do likewise? It is discreditable that you, who have
a reputation for superior ability in political deliberation, should be convicted
of a duller perception of your own advantage than Olynthians.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.