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and with foreknowledge on the assurance of your ambassadors that your allies
would be ruined, that the Thebans would gain strength, that Philip would occupy
the northern positions, that a basis of attack would be established against you
in Euboea, and that everything that has
in fact resulted would befall you, you thereupon cheerfully made the peace, by
all means acquit Aeschines, and do not crown your other dishonors with the sin
of perjury. He has done you no wrong, and I am a madman and a fool to accuse
him.
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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