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“and exhort them not
to be dismayed at Philip, but to hold fast to their own liberty and the
liberty of the other Greeks, assuring them t hat the people of Athens, harboring no ill will for
previous mutual differences between the states, will help them with troops,
money, ammunition, and arms, knowing that, while it is an honor able
ambition for Greeks to dispute with each other for the hegemony, yet to be
ruled by a man of alien race and to be robbed by him of that hegemony is
unworthy both of the reputation of the Greeks and of the merits of their
ancestors.”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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