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Why, then, was he
more successful than we in the late war? I will be frank with you, men of
Athens. It is because he always
takes a personal share in the hardships and dangers of the campaign, never
neglects a chance, never wastes any season of the year; while we—for
the truth must out—sit here idle; we are always hanging back and
passing resolutions and haunting the market-place to learn the latest news. Yet
what more startling news could there be than that a Macedonian should insult
Athenians, daring to send us such a letter as you have heard read a moment ago?
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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