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For they cannot allege as their excuse that there is plenty of
timber for shipbuilding at Athens,
where we import it with great trouble from distant parts, but that it is scarce
in Macedonia, where there is a cheap
supply for all who want it. No, they thought that they would build their ships
here and also furnish them with crews in our harbor, though it is expressly
stipulated in the joint agreement that nothing of the kind should be permitted;
and they thought too that it would always be more and more in their power to do
this. Thus on every hand they treat our city with contempt, thanks to their
prompters here, who suggest to them everything they should do;
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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