[49]
It was
Aeschines who was Philip's spokesman and gave undertakings. Then Philocrates,
taking advantage of your ready acceptance of Aeschines' words, inserts in the
decree a clause providing that, if the Phocians should not do what was right and
give up the temple to the Amphictyonic Council, the Athenian people should send
a force to coerce the recalcitrants.
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.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.