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Those vile Thessalians and those ill-conditioned
Thebans regarded Philip as their friend, their benefactor, and their deliverer.
He was all in all to them; they would not listen to the voice of any one who
spoke ill of him. You Athenians, though suspicious and dissatisfied, observed
the terms of peace, for you could do nothing. The rest of the Greeks, though
similarly overreached and disappointed, observed the peace; and yet in a sense
the war against them had already begun;
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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