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who, when Aristophon prosecuted Philonicus, and in denouncing him denounced
your own policy, joined in the attack upon you, and so ranged himself with your
enemies? After terrifying the people, and telling them that they must go down to
Peiraeus at once, pay the war-tax and turn the theatric fund into a war-chest,
or else vote for the resolution that was supported by Aeschines and moved by
that abominable Philocrates, with the result that we got a discreditable instead
of an equitable peace,
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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