For consider. If for his first violation of the peace, or his second or third—for there was a long series of them—someone had proposed a declaration of war against him, and if Philip, just as he is doing now when no one proposes such a declaration, had gone to the help of the Cardians, would not the proposer have been suppressed,The word used is strong, but purposely vague. He would have incurred the inevitable γραφὴ παρανόμων. and blamed by everybody as the real author of Philip’s expedition?