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Now what contributed to his
success, when he found you ready to fall into his trap almost eagerly, was the
baseness, or, if you prefer the term, the stupidity, or both, of the other Greek
states. You were fighting a long and incessant war for purposes in which, as the
event has proved, they were all concerned, and yet they helped you neither with
money, nor with men, nor with anything else; and so, in your just and natural
indignation, you readily accepted Philip's suggestion. The peace conceded to him
at that time was due to the causes I have named, and not, as Aeschines
maliciously insists, to me; and the misdeeds and the corruption of Aeschines and
his party during that peace will be found, on any honest inquiry, to be the true
cause of our present troubles.
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