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But when our turn comes, what shall we say then? For of course he
will deny that he is attacking us, just as he denied that he was attacking the
men of Oreus, when his troops were already in their territory, or the Pheraeans
before that, when he was actually assaulting their walls, or the Olynthians at
the start, until he was inside their frontier with his army. Or shall we say,
even at that hour, that those who bid us repel him are provoking war? If so,
there is nothing left but slavery, for there is no other alternative.
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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