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“Can you not imagine,” I said,
addressing the Messenians, “how annoyed the Olynthians would have been
to hear a word said against Philip in the days when he was handing over to them
Anthemus, to which all the former kings of Macedonia laid claim, when he was making them a present of
Potidaea, expelling the Athenian
settlers, and when he had taken upon himself the responsibility of a quarrel
with us and had given them the territory of Potidaea for their own use? Do you imagine they expected to be
treated as they have been, or would have believed anyone who suggested it?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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