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Nor is this all. If anything happened to him, or if Fortune, which always
cares for us better than we care for ourselves, should bring that result about,
remember that you must be on the spot if you want to take advantage of the
general confusion and to control the situation at your pleasure; but in your
present condition you would be unable, even if the opportunity offered, to take
over Amphipolis, having neither
a force nor a policy ready to hand.1
1 Lit. “being cut off [from Amphipolis] both in forces and in plans,” a vigorous but untranslatable phrase.
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