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How
did he manage it? By hiring Aeschines. Nobody, of course, had any inkling;
nobody was watching— according to your usual custom! Aeschines was
nominated for the deputation to Thermopylae; three or four hands were held up, and he was
declared elected. He repaired to the Council, invested with all the prestige of
Athens, and at once, putting
aside and disregarding everything else, addressed himself to the business for
which he had taken pay. He concocted a plausible speech about the legendary
origin of the consecration of the Cirrhaean territory, and by this narration
induced the commissioners, men unversed in oratory and unsuspicious of
consequences,
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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