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He cannot claim as
advantages the destruction of the Phocians, or Philip's occupation of Thermopylae, or the aggrandizement of
Thebes, or the invasion of
Euboea, or the designs against
Megara, or the unratified peace;
for he reported himself that exactly the opposite was going to happen and would
be to your advantage. Neither can he convince you, against the evidence of your
own eyes and your own knowledge, that these disasters are fabulous.
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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