According to Jacqueline de Romilly, a French philologist and member of the Académie française, the threat of Philip would give Demosthenes' stances a focus and a raison d'être (reason for existence).
Segundo comenta Jacqueline de Romilly, filóloga membro da Academia francesa, a ameaza de Filipo daría a Demóstenes un enfoque e unha razón de ser.