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and if the Thessalians dislike us because we protect
the Phocian fugitives, and Philip because we are trying to exclude him from the
Amphictyonic Council; then I am afraid that these separate powers, having each a
private grudge, may make common cause against us on the strength of the
Amphictyonic decrees, and may then be tempted to go beyond what their several
interests require, as they were in the case of the Phocians.
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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