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Would they not have told you that we had made Philip
a present of our allies? That they had been driven away when they wanted to join
us? That through the Byzantines he had gained the mastery of the Hellespont, and control of the corn-supply of
all Greece? That by means of the
Thebans Attica had become the scene of a distressing war with her own neighbors?
That the sea had become useless for ships because of privateers with Euboea for their base? Would they not have
made all those complaints, and plenty more?
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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