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Secondly, the
agent1 who was privy to all Philip's schemes against the king of
Persia has been kidnapped, and the
king will hear of all these plots, not as the complaint of Athenians, whom he
might suspect of speaking for our own private advantage, but from the lips of
the very man who planned and carried them out, so that their credit is
established, and the only suggestion for our ambassadors to make is one which
the king would be delighted to hear,
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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