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Those things must not escape your
attention either, which, though by themselves they are not sufficient to effect your
purpose, yet when added to your military forces, will render all your aims much easier of
accomplishment. To what, then, do I refer? Toward no city and toward none of the citizens
in this or that city who have supported the existing order1 must you harbor any bitterness2 or bear a grudge.
1 The cities of Greece were forced to set up pro-Macedonian governments after the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. A Macedonian garrison was stationed in Thebes. Athens was less harshly treated but outspoken advocates of freedom were out of favour.
2 The verb πικραίνεσθαι is cited as used by Demosthenes, Bekker, 1. p. 111. 31.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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