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But surely it is not to you that they should recommend peace, for
you have taken the advice and there you sit; it is to the man who is even now on
the warpath; for if Philip can be won over, your share of the compact is ready
to hand. Again, they should reflect that the irksome thing is not the expense of
securing our safety, but the doom that will be ours if we shrink from that
expense. As for the “plunder of your wealth,” they ought to
prevent that by proposing some way of checking it and not by abandoning your
interests.
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