taken precautions against suffering any themselves, do you imagine that he
will make a formal declaration of war upon you before he commences
hostilities, and that, so long as you are content to be deceived? {14}
Impossible! For so long as you, though you are the injured party, make no
complaint against him, but accuse some of your own body, he would be the
most fatuous man on earth if _he_ were to interrupt your strife and
contentions with one another--to bid you turn upon himself, and so to cut
away the ground from the arguments by which his hirelings put you off,
when they tell you that _he_ is not at war with Athens.

{15} In God's name, is there a man in his senses who would judge by words,
and not by facts, whether another was at peace or at war with him? Of
course there is not. Why, from the very first, when the Peace had only
just been made, before those who are now in the Chersonese had been sent
out, Philip was taking Serrhium[n] and Doriscus, and expelling the
soldiers who were in the castle of Serrhium and the Sacred Mountain, where
they had been placed by your general. {16} But what was he doing, in
acting thus? For he had sworn to a Peace.[n] And let no one ask, 'What do
these things amount to? What do they matter to Athens?' For whether these
acts were trifles which could have no interest for you is another matter;
but the principles of religion[n] and justice, whether a man transgress
them in small things or great, have always the same force. What? When he
is sending mercenaries into the Chersonese, which the king and all the
Hellenes have acknowledged to be yours; when he openly avows that he is
going to the rescue, and states it in his letter, what is it that he is
doing? {17} He tells you, indeed, that he is not making war upon you. But
so far am I from admitting that one who acts in this manner is observing
the Peace which he made with you, that I hold that in grasping at Megara,
in setting up tyrants in Euboea, in advancing against Thrace at the
present moment, in pursuing his machinations in the Peloponnese, and in