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But indeed I think you want no speech to
prove how vast is the difference between a war here and a war yonder. Why, if
you were obliged to take the field yourselves for a bare month, drawing from
Attica the necessary
supplies—I am assuming that there is no enemy in this
country—I suppose your farmers would lose more than the sum spent upon
the whole of the previous war.1 But if war comes within
our borders, at what figure must we assess our losses? And you must add the
insolence of the enemy and the ignominy of our position, greater than any loss
in a wise man's estimation.
1 The war about Amphipolis. Demosthenes reckons its cost at 1500 talents （Dem. 2.28）.
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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