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Yet
Philip would have paid any sum to have matters managed in this way. For when
these men had failed to draw the treaty, as they first tried to do, with a
clause excepting the Halians and the Phocians, and Philocrates had been
compelled by you to erase those words and write expressly, “the
Athenians and the Allies of the Athenians,” to the treaty so drawn
Philip did not wish any of his allies to have sworn; for then they would have
refused to join in his forcible occupation of those possessions of yours which
he now holds, and the oath would have been their excuse.
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