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Demosthenes (?384-322 B.C.) Athenian statesman one of the greatest orators of all time. Demosthenes warned his countrymen to unite against the common enemy, Philip of Macedon, whose policy he exposed, about 351 b.c., in the oration known as the First Philippic.
James Heny Breasted, Ancient Times, A History of the Early World (Boston, New York: Ginn, 1916) 427.
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