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I came forward and reported the whole truth to the Council. I denounced these
men, and told the whole story, point by point, beginning with those earlier
hopes created by the reports of Ctesiphon and Aristodemus, going on to the more recent orations
of Aeschines at the approval of the peace, and showing to what straits they had
reduced the city. There remained the question of the Phocians and Thermopylae, and we must
not—such was my advice—we must not repeat our experience,
and throw them overboard, and so, in reliance upon a succession of idle hopes
and assurances, allow ourselves to fall into the last extremity of disaster. I
convinced the Council;
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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