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But afterwards, when within five or six days the Phocians were
destroyed, when Aeschines' wages stopped as such things do, when Dercylus had
returned from Chalcis and had
informed you, at the assembly held at Peiraeus, of the destruction of the
Phocians, when that news filled you with indignation on their account and alarm
on your own, when you were resolving to bring in your women and children from
the country, to reinstate the frontier fortresses, to fortify the Peiraeus, and
to hold the festival of Heracles within the walls,—
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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