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τί οὖν κελεύω; τὰς προφάσεις ἀφελεῖν καὶ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ καὶ τῶν στρατιωτῶν, μισθὸν πορίσαντας καὶ στρατιώτας οἰκείους ὥσπερ ἐπόπτας τῶν στρατηγουμένων παρακαταστήσαντας: ἐπεὶ νῦν γε γέλως ἔσθ᾽ ὡς χρώμεθα τοῖς πράγμασιν. εἰ γὰρ ἔροιτό τις ὑμᾶς, ‘εἰρήνην ἄγετ᾽, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι;’ ‘μὰ Δί᾽ οὐχ ἡμεῖς γ᾽,’ εἴποιτ᾽ ἄν, ‘ἀλλὰ Φιλίππῳ πολεμοῦμεν.’
Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1903.
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