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πότ᾽ οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, πόθ᾽ ἃ χρὴ πράξετε; ἐπειδὰν τί γένηται; ἐπειδὰν νὴ Δί᾽ ἀνάγκη τις ᾖ. νῦν δὲ τί χρὴ τὰ γιγνόμεν᾽ ἡγεῖσθαι; ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ οἴομαι τοῖς ἐλευθέροις μεγίστην ἀνάγκην τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν πραγμάτων αἰσχύνην εἶναι. ἢ βούλεσθ᾽, εἰπέ μοι, περιιόντες αὑτῶν πυνθάνεσθαι,‘λέγεταί τι καινόν;’ γένοιτο γὰρ ἄν τι καινότερον ἢ Μακεδὼν ἀνὴρ Ἀθηναίους καταπολεμῶν καὶ τὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων διοικῶν; ‘τέθνηκε Φίλιππος;’ ‘οὐ μὰ Δί᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἀσθενεῖ.’
Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1903.
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