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At Olynthus there were two parties in the state: Philip's men,
entirely subservient to him, and the patriots, striving to preserve the freedom
of their countrymen. Which, pray, ruined their country? Which betrayed the
cavalry, whose betrayal sealed the doom of Olynthus? The partisans of Philip; the men who, when the city
was still standing, tried to defame and slander the patriotic statesmen, until
the Olynthian democracy was actually induced to expel Apollonides.1
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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