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but because I knew that
Aristophon, and after him Eubulus, had always wished to promote a good
understanding between Athens and
Thebes. In that regard they were
always of one mind, despite their constant disagreement on other points of
policy. While those statesmen were alive, Aeschines, you pestered them with your
flattery, like the sly fox you are; now they are dead, you denounce them,
unaware that, when you reproach me with a Theban policy, your censure does not
affect me so much as the men who approved of a Theban alliance before I did. But
that is a digression.
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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