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I will tell you. It suited Philip's
purposes that the interval should be as long, and ours that it should be as
short as possible; for you had suspended all your preparations for war, not
merely from the day of ratification, but from that on which you first began to
expect peace. That was just what Philip was contriving all the time, expecting
with good reason that he would hold safely any Athenian possessions which he
might seize before the ratification, as no one would break the peace to recover
them.
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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