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then at last, at that crisis, when the city was
encompassed with confusion and terror, off marched this wise, clever,
smooth-tongued gentleman, without waiting for Council or Assembly to reappoint
him, on his embassy to the court of the chief malefactor. He forgot that he had
sworn that he was too ill to travel; forgot that another ambassador had been
chosen in his stead, and that the law visits such conduct with death; forgot
that, with the Thebans not only holding all Boeotia but in possession of the territory of Phocis,
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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