Demades, On the Twelve Years, ed. John Ormiston Burtt, 56

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[56] . . . by the course of events proclaims the fire of war. This letter of Alexander’s broke my purpose.¹ This letter, embracing war in characters of ink, almost seized me by the hand and roused me. It travelled through my thoughts and did not let me rest in peace; for the danger was at our gates.

On the Twelve Years. Demades. ed. John Ormiston Burtt. London. 1954.

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[56] διὰ τῶν πραγμάτων πολέμιον πῦρ προαγορεύει. αὕτη ἡ Ἀλεξάνδρου¹ ἐπιστολὴ συνέτριβέ μου τὴν διάνοιαν· αὕτη πόλεμον ἐν τύπῳ γραμμάτων περιέχουσα μονονοὺκ ἐπιλαβομένη μου τῆς χειρὸς ἐξήγειρεν· αὕτη πορευομένη διὰ τῶν λογισμῶν τὴν ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν οὐκ ἐπέτρεψεν· ἐν πύλαις γὰρ ὁ κίνδυνος.

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1. Perhaps Alexander’s letter demanding triremes from Athens (see Plut. Phoc. 21 ).

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