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You will find that
even our defeat, if this reprobate must needs exult over what he ought to have
deplored, did not fall upon the city through any fault of mine. Make your
reckoning in this way: wherever I was sent as your representative, I came away
undefeated by Philip's ambassador—from Thessaly, from Ambracia, from the Illyrians, from the kings of Thrace, from Byzantium, from every other place, and
finally from Thebes; but wherever
Philip was beaten in diplomacy, he attacked the place with an army and conquered
it.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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