Demosthenes, Philippic 4, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 55

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[55] The other errors it is not worth while to investigate now, but whenever any question arises that concerns Philip, instantly up jumps someone and says there must be no nonsense talked, no declarationtion of war, and he at once goes on to add how good a thing it is to preserve peace, and what a bother it is to keep up a large army, and how certain persons want to plunder your wealth¹; and their other statements are as true as they can make them.

Philippic 4. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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Fourth Philippic (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. I: Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Speeches, Speech Against Leptines, I-XVII, XX. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930 (printing).)

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κατὰ Φιλίππου δ΄ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 55 focus

[55] καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ τἄλλʼ οὐκ ἄξιον ἐξετάσαι νῦν· ἀλλʼ ἐπειδάν τι τῶν πρὸς Φίλιππον ἐμπέσῃ, εὐθὺς ἀναστάς τις λέγει ὡς οὐ δεῖ ληρεῖν οὐδὲ γράφειν πόλεμον, παραθεὶς εὐθέως ἑξῆς τὸ τὴν εἰρήνην ἄγειν ὡς ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ τρέφειν μεγάλην δύναμιν ὡς χαλεπόν, καὶ διαρπάζειν τινὲς τὰ χρήματα βούλονται, καὶ ἄλλους λόγους ὡς οἷόν τʼ ἀληθεστάτους λέγουσιν.

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Philippic 4

1. i.e. by diverting money from the Theoric Fund to military objects.

Demosthenes Philippic 4 55

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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