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What then were the speeches he made at
that crisis—the speeches that brought everything to ruin? He told you
that you need not be excited because Philip had passed Thermopylae; that, if only you kept
quiet, you would get all you wanted, and would within two or three days learn
that Philip was now the friend of those to whom he came as enemy, and the enemy
of those to whom he came as friend. The bonds of amity, he declared, with his
most impressive eloquence, are fortified not by words but by community of
interest; and it was an interest common to Philip, to the Phocians, and to all
of you alike, to be quit of the unfeeling and offensive behavior of the Thebans.
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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