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How could we have returned the gaze of visitors to
our city, if the result had been what it is—Philip the chosen lord
paramount of all Greece—and if other nations had fought gallantly to
avert that calamity without our aid, although never before in the whole course
of history had our city preferred inglorious security to the perils of a noble
cause?
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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