On the recordc. 349 BC
Still under these indignities we are all slack and disheartened, and look toward our neighbors, distrusting one another, instead of the common enemy.
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gutenberg.orgDemosthenes: “Still under these indignities we are all slack and disheartened, and look toward our neighbors, distrusting one another…”
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From a speech urging Athenians to resist Philip, on the internal divisions and lack of resolve among the Greek states.
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