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But we ourselves are parties to the peace, which instructs us to
treat as enemies those who are guilty of such acts. Now in view of this, are we
to obey these joint instructions and treat them as enemies, or will anyone be
blackguard1
enough to say no—one of the hirelings in the pay of the Macedonian
king, one of those who have grown rich at your expense?
1 This is one of the words which Libanius thought more the style of Hyperides than of Demosthenes.
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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