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These
distinctions and explanations I offer merely for the sake of accuracy; for if
you should suppose that there was any guilt, or ever so much guilt, in that
peace-making business, the suspicion does not concern me. The first man to raise
the question of peace in a speech was Aristodemus, the actor, and the man who
took up the cue, moved the resolution, and, with Aeschines, became Philip's
hired agent, was Philocrates of Hagnus—your confederate, Aeschines,
not mine, though you lie till you are black in the face. Their supporters in the
debate were Eubulus and Cephisophon—on whose motives I have at present
nothing to say. I never spoke in favor of the peace.
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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