opportunity he may offer--far from it--and there is nothing unsound or
careless in his reasoning. {43} The first essential point, therefore, is
this--that you conceive him to be the irreconcilable foe of your
constitution and of democracy: for unless you are inwardly convinced of
this, you will not be willing to take an active interest in the situation.
Secondly, you must realize clearly that all the plans which he is now so
busily contriving are in the nature of preparations against this country;
and wherever any one resists him, he there resists him on our behalf. {44}
For surely no one is so simple as to imagine that when Philip is covetous
of the wretched hamlets[n] of Thrace--one can give no other name to
Drongilum, Cabyle, Masteira, and the places which he is now seizing--and
when to get these places he is enduring heavy labours, hard winters, and
the extremity of danger;--{45} no one can imagine, I say, that the
harbours and the dockyards, and the ships of the Athenians, the produce of
your silver-mines, and your huge revenue, have no attraction for him, or
that he will leave you in possession of these, while he winters in the
very pit of destruction[n] for the sake of the millet and the spelt in the
silos[n] of Thrace. No, indeed! It is to get these into his power that he
pursues both his operations in Thrace and all his other designs. {46} What
then, as sensible men, must you do? Knowing and realizing your position,
as you do, you must lay aside this excessive, this irremediable[n]
indolence: you must contribute funds, and require them from your allies;
you must so provide and act, that this force which is now assembled may be
held together; in order that, as Philip has the force in readiness that is
to injure and enslave all the Hellenes, you may have in readiness that
which shall preserve and succour them. {47} You cannot effect by isolated
expeditions any of the things which must be effected. You must organize a
force, and provide maintenance for it, and paymasters, and a staff of
servants; and when you have taken such steps as will ensure the strictest
possible watch being kept over the funds, you must hold these officials