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And yet, men of Athens, it is reasonable to suggest that
the very thing which makes Philip's position most redoubtable is also most
encouraging for you. For the swift and opportune movements of war he has an
immense advantage over us in the fact that he is the sole director of his own
policy, open or secret, that he unites the functions of a general, a ruler and a
treasurer, and that he is always at the head of his army; but when it comes to a
composition such as he would gladly make with Olynthus, the tables are turned.
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