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Moreover, this supremacy of the constitution-mongers
who rely on Philip's support has been gained by all the devices usual in
politics, first and foremost by providing a dispenser of wealth to such as covet
it, secondly, and not less effectively, by having at their back a force capable
of crushing their opponents on any occasion when they may call upon 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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