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With regard to his repeated promises to you
of substantial benefits, he complains that I am slandering and defaming him in
the ears of the Greeks, for he says that he has never made you any promises at
all. Such is the shamelessness of the man who stated in his letter, which is
still to be seen in the Council House, that if peace was made he would confer
such benefits on you as would stop the mouths of us, his opponents, benefits
which he said he would put down in writing, if he were sure that the peace would
be made. The inference was that all the good things that we were to enjoy on the
conclusion of peace were ready for immediate delivery.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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