[59]
Now I calculate
that the news from Athens reached
the Phocians on the fourth day after that date, for there were Phocian envoys in
the city, and they were interested in knowing what report these men would submit
and what decree you would adopt. Therefore the twentieth was the day on which we
reckon that the Phocians received the news, that is, the fourth day after the
sixteenth. Then followed the twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third; and on
the twenty-third the convention was made, and the fortunes of Phocis perished and came to an end.
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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