the same manner as he, I have no quarrel with you. {9} But if any man's
conception of peace is that it is a state in which Philip can master all
that intervenes till at last he comes to attack ourselves, such a
conception, in the first place, is madness; and, in the second place, this
peace that he speaks of is a peace which you are to observe towards
Philip, while he does not observe it towards you: and this it is--this
power to carry on war against you, without being met by any hostilities on
your part--that Philip is purchasing with all the money that he is
spending.

{10} Indeed, if we intend to wait till the time comes when he admits that
he is at war with us, we are surely the most innocent persons in the
world. Why, even if he comes to Attica itself, to the very Peiraeus, he
will never make such an admission, if we are to judge by his dealings with
others. {11} For, to take one instance, he told the Olynthians, when he
was five miles from the city, that there were only two alternatives--
either they must cease to live in Olynthus, or he to live in Macedonia:
but during the whole time before that, whenever any one accused him of any
such sentiments, he was indignant and sent envoys to answer the charge.
Again, he marched into the Phocians' country, as though visiting his
allies:[n] it was by Phocian envoys that he was escorted on the march; and
most people in Athens contended strongly that his crossing the Pass would
bring no good to Thebes. {12} Worse still, he has lately seized Pherae[n]
and still holds it, though he went to Thessaly as a friend and an ally.
And, latest of all, he told those unhappy citizens of Oreus[n] that he had
sent his soldiers to visit them and to make kind inquiries; he had heard
that they were sick, and suffering from faction, and it was right for an
ally and a true friend to be present at such a time. {13} Now if, instead
of giving them warning and using open force, he deliberately chose to
deceive these men, who could have done him no harm, though they might have