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Do not,
then, listen to anything that had been done by Lacedaemonians or Phocians before
he made his report; do not let him talk about it; do not permit him to denounce
the Phocians and call them rascals. You saved the Lacedaemonians in old time,
and those accursed Euboeans lately, and many other peoples, not because they
were virtuous, but because their safety profited Athens, as that of the Phocians would today. What transgression
did the Phocians or the Lacedaemonians or you or anyone else commit after
Aeschines' speech, that the promises made by him to you then should not be
fulfilled?
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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