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Excerpt from The Philippics of Demosthenes: With Introductions and Notes; For the Use of Colleges Philip of Macedon. This earliest of the popular orations of Demosthenes, though he was then a young man at the most of thirty-three years, according to Grote and Curtius only thirty years of age, * thus shows much of the same practical wisdom and discernment of men and things which mark his whole career; and from this time his history becomes identified with the history of Athens, and inseparablv connected with that of all the other Grecian states. Curtius's admirable chapters on Athens and King Philip and the Last Struggles for Independence (vol. V., Chap. III. And IV) are all strung. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.