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This, then, is the first thing
needful, to recognize in Philip the inveterate enemy of constitutional
government and democracy; and your second need is to convince yourselves that
all his activity and all his organization is preparing the way for an attack on
our city. For none of you is so simple as to believe that though Philip covets
these wretched objects in Thrace—for what else can one call Drongilus
and Cabyle and Mastira and the other
places he is said to be now holding ?—and though he endures toil and
winter storms and deadly peril for the privilege of taking them,
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