[23]
If you do
this, and you are really in earnest about it, you will either compel Philip to
keep the peace fairly and to stay in one place, or you will fight him on equal
terms; and perhaps—perhaps, just as you are now inquiring what Philip
is doing and where he is marching, so he may be anxious to know where the
Athenian force is bound for, and in what quarter it will appear.
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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