Now how it was that he came to reverse his policies （for this is the second period）,1 and what is the reason that policies identical with those of Demosthenes led to the impeachment and exile of Philocrates,2 while Demosthenes suddenly stood forth as accuser of the rest, and how it is that the pestilential fellow has plunged you into misfortune, this you ought now especially to hear.
1 See Aeschin. 3.55.
2 Philocrates was indicted by Hypereides in 343 b.c., and went into exile without standing trial.
Aeschines. Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919.
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