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Here is another point for your consideration. If we were
destined to disaster when we fought with the Thebans at our side, what were we
to expect if we had lacked even that alliance, and if they had joined Philip, a
union for which he exerted all his powers of appeal? And if, after a battle
fought three days' march from the frontier, such danger and such alarm beset the
city, what must we have expected after suffering the same defeat within our own
borders? Do you not see that, as it was, one, or two, or three days gave the
city time for resistance, concentration, recovery, for much that made for
deliverance; as it might have been—but I will not mention an
experience that we were spared by divine favor, and by the protection of that
very alliance which you denounce.
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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