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καὶ παράδοξον μὲν ἴσως ἐστὶν ὃ μέλλω λέγειν, ἀληθὲς δέ: τὸ χείριστον ἐν τοῖς παρεληλυθόσι, τοῦτο πρὸς τὰ μέλλοντα βέλτιστον ὑπάρχει. τί οὖν ἐστι τοῦτο; ὅτι οὔτε μικρὸν οὔτε μέγ᾽ οὐδὲν τῶν δεόντων ποιούντων ὑμῶν κακῶς τὰ πράγματ᾽ ἔχει, ἐπεί τοι, εἰ πάνθ᾽ ἃ προσῆκε πραττόντων οὕτως διέκειτο, οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἐλπὶς ἦν αὐτὰ γενέσθαι βελτίω. νῦν δὲ τῆς ῥᾳθυμίας τῆς ὑμετέρας καὶ τῆς ἀμελίας κεκράτηκε Φίλιππος, τῆς πόλεως δ᾽ οὐ κεκράτηκεν: οὐδ᾽ ἥττησθ᾽ ὑμεῖς, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲ κεκίνησθε.
Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1903.
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