[34] For my part, whenever I see a man afraid of one who dwells at
Susa
and
Ecbatana
and insisting that he is ill-disposed to
Athens
, though he helped to restore our fortunes in the past and was even now making overtures to us
1
(and if you did not accept them but voted their rejection, the fault is not his); and when I find the same man using very different language about this plunderer of the Greeks, who is extending his power, as you see, at our very doors and in the heart of
Greece
, I am astonished, and, whoever he may be, it is I that fear him, just because he does not fear Philip.
Philippic 4. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.
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