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“Decree of Demosthenes[In the archonship of Nausicles, the tribe Aeantis then holding
the presidency, on the sixteenth day of Scirophorion, Demosthenes, son of
Demosthenes, of Paeania, proposed that, whereas Philip of Macedon is proved in the past to have
violated the terms of peace agreed to between him and the People of
Athens, disregarding his
oaths and the principles of equity as recognized among all the Greeks: and
whereas he appropriates cities not belonging to him, and has captured in war
some that actually belonged to the Athenians without provocation from the
Athenian people, and is today making great advances in violence and
cruelty,”
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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