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The
one thing that remains and that ought to have been done long ago, though even
now the chance is not lost, I will tell you. There is nothing that the State
needs so much for the coming struggle as money. Some strokes of good fortune we
have enjoyed without our design, and if we make the right use of them, the
desired results may perhaps follow. For first, the men whom the king of
Persia trusts and has accepted as
his “benefactors,”1 hate
Philip and are at war with him.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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