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For consider. If for his first violation of
the peace, or his second or third—for there was a long series of
them—someone had proposed a declaration of war against him, and if
Philip, just as he is doing now when no one proposes such a declaration, had
gone to the help of the Cardians, would not the proposer have been
suppressed,1 and blamed by everybody as the real
author of Philip's expedition?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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