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Here is a
warning, men of Athens, which, if
you will be guided by me, you will bear in mind; and, remembering also that,
when Philip was besieging Amphipolis, he pretended to be doing so in order to hand the
place over to you, but that, when he had got it, he annexed Potidaea into the bargain, you will sh to have
the same sort of assurance that, according to the story, Philocrates, son of
Ephialtes, once opposed to the Lacedaemonians.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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