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Again, what frightens
some of you—that his wealth will attract a large mercenary
army—does not strike me as true. For although I believe that many
Greeks would consent to serve in his pay against the Egyptians and Orontes1 and other barbarians, not so much to
enable him to subdue any of those enemies as to win for themselves wealth and
relief from their present poverty, yet I do not think that any Greek would
attack Greece. For where would he
retire afterwards? Will he go to Phrygia and be a slave?
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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