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the other causes were but specious and popular. 

 &quot; Verissimam quidem, sed minime sermone celebra- 

 &quot; tarn, arbitror extitisse belli causam, Athenienses, 

 &quot; magnos effectos et Lacedasmoniis formidolosos, 

 &quot; necessitatem illis imposuisse bellandi : quse autem 

 &quot; propalam ferebantur utrinque causae, istse fuerant, 

 &quot; &c.&quot; &quot; The truest cause of this war, though least 

 &quot; voiced, I conceive to have been this ; that the 

 &quot; Athenians, being grown great, to the terror of the 

 &quot; Lacedaemonians, did impose upon them a necessity 

 &quot; of a war: but the causes that went abroad in speech 

 &quot; were these, &c.&quot; Sulpitius Galba, consul, when he 

 persuaded the Romans to a preventive war, with the 

 later Philip king of Macedon, in regard of the great 

 preparations which Philip had then on foot, and his 

 designs to ruin some of the confederates of the 

 Romans, confidently saith, that they who took that 

 for an offensive war, understood not the state of the 

 question. &quot; Ignorare videmini mihi, Quirites, non, 

 utrum bellum an pacem habeatis, vos consuli, 

 &quot; neque enim liberum id vobis permittet Philippus, 

 &quot; qui terra manque ingens bellum molitur, sed 

 &quot; utrum in Macedoniam legiones transporters, an 

 &quot; hostem in Italiam recipiatis.&quot; &quot; Ye seem to me, 

 &quot; ye Romans, not to understand, that the consul- 

 &quot; tation before you is not, whether you shall have 

 &quot; war or peace, for Philip will take order you shall 

 &quot; be no choosers, who prepareth a mighty war both 

 &quot; by land and sea, but whether you shall transport 

 &quot; the war into Macedon, or receive it into Italy.&quot; 

 Antiochus, when he incited Prusias king of Bithynia, 



