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Thus my
considered policy was not only successful in delivering the Chersonese and Byzantium, in preventing the subjugation
of the Hellespont to Philip, and in
bringing distinction to the city, but it exhibited to mankind the noble spirit
of Athens and the depravity of
Philip. For he, the ally of the Byzantines, was besieging them in the sight of
all men: could anything be more discreditable and outrageous?
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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