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Yet this infatuation, this hankering
after Philip, men of Athens, until
very recently had only destroyed the predominance of the Thessalians and their
national prestige, but now it is already sapping their independence, for some of
their citadels are actually garrisoned by Macedonians. It has invaded Peloponnesus and caused the massacres at
Elis. It infected those unhappy
people with such delirious insanity that, to overmaster one another and to
gratify Philip, they stained their hands with the blood of their own kindred and
fellow-citizens.
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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