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when, I say, the
business had gone so far as that, and corruption had won the day, then, though
they numbered more than ten thousand and had a thousand cavalry, though all
their neighbors were in alliance with them, though you came to their aid with
ten thousand mercenaries, fifty war-galleys, and four thousand of your
citizen-force, nothing could save them. Before the war had lasted a year they
had lost every town in Chalcidice
through treachery, and Philip could no longer pay any attention to the traitors,
and hardly knew what to capture first.
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