Demosthenes, On the Chersonese, section 31

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[31] But if anyone rises and tells you the real truth and says, “Nonsense, Athenians! The cause of all these evils and all these troubles is Philip, for if he had kept quiet, our city would have been free from trouble,” you cannot gainsay it, but you seem to me to be vexed and to feel that you are, as it were, losing something.

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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Commentary references to this page (1):
- J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, 20
Cross-references to this page (3):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, NEGATIVE SENTENCES
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Syntax of the simple sentence
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- LSJ, οὐ

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