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Nor did he desire witnesses of the promises on the
strength of which he was obtaining the peace, nor any public disclosure of the
fact that after all Athens had not
been beaten in the war, and that it was Philip who was really eager for the
peace, and was ready to make large promises to the Athenians if he could get it.
Therefore he disapproved of these men going anywhere, lest the facts that I am
stating should become generally known; and they were ready to gratify him with
ostentatious deference and extravagant adulation.
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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