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But if anyone here, Athenians, is inclined to think
Philip too formidable, having regard to the extent of his existing resources and
to our loss of all our strongholds, he is indeed right, yet he must reflect that
we too, men of Athens, once held
Pydna, Potidaea, and Methone and had in our own hands all the surrounding territory,
and that many of the native tribes now in his service were then free and
independent and were indeed more inclined to side with us than with Philip.
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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