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But if we leave these
men too in the lurch, Athenians, and then Olynthus is crushed by Philip, tell me what is to prevent him
from marching henceforward just where he pleases. I wonder if any one of you in
this audience watches and notes the steps by which Philip, weak at first, has
grown so powerful. First he seized Amphipolis, next Pydna, then Potidaea,
after that Methone, lastly he
invaded Thessaly.
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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