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This imprecation I
address to Heaven, and this solemn averment I now make, because, though I have
letters, deposited in the Record Office, enabling me to offer absolute proof,
and though I am sure that you have not forgotten the transaction, I am afraid
that his ability may be deemed inadequate for such enormous mischief. That
mistake was made before, when by his false reports he contrived the destruction
of the unhappy Phocians.
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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