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For we have
no choice in the matter, but there remains the most righteous and most necessary
task of all, which these gentlemen deliberately pass over in silence. What then
is that task? To defend ourselves against the aggressor. Or perhaps they mean
that if Philip keeps his hands off Attica and the Piraeus, he is neither injuring our city nor provoking
hostilities.
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