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Well, if the present defendants have omitted any single one of the
misdeeds for which those persons were sentenced to death, execute me on the
spot. Look at the decree: “Whereas the said ambassadors have disobeyed
their instructions.” That is the first charge alleged. And did not
these men disobey their instructions? Did not the decree say, “for the
Athenians and the Allies of the Athenians,” and did not they declare
the Phocians to be excluded? Did it not instruct them to swear in the
magistrates in the several cities, and did they not swear in only such persons
as Philip sent to them? Did not the decree say that they were not to meet Philip
alone in any place whatsoever, and did they not continually have private
dealings with Philip?
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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