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Moreover, you will find that the Chersonese is in greater danger now than then.
When would it have been easier to punish Philip for wrongful aggression upon
that country—before he forestalled us at Thermopylae, or today? Surely far
easier then! What, then, does it profit us that we still retain the Chersonese, if the man, who would have invaded
it if he could, is freed from the apprehensions and perils that deterred him?
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