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I will
now prove to you that I am not making up a story or claiming merit after the
event, but that I formed my judgement, kept my eye on your interests, and told
the envoys, without any delay. Finding that you had got to the end of the
regular Assemblies, and that there was no meeting left, and observing that the
envoys were still wasting time at Athens instead of starting at once, I proposed a decree as a
member of the Council, to which the Assembly had given authority, directing the
envoys to sail immediately, and the general Proxenus to convey them to any place
in which he should ascertain that Philip was to be found. I drafted it, as I now
read it, in those express terms. Please take and read the decree.“
Decree
”
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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