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When therefore the Phocians learned your policy from the proceedings of the
Assembly, received the decree of Philocrates, and were informed of the report
and promises of Aeschines, their ruin was complete. Just consider. There were
some men in Phocis, sensible men, who
had no confidence in Philip. They were induced to trust him. Why? Because they
conceived that, though Philip had deceived them ten times over, he would never
have dared to deceive Athenians and envoys of the Athenian people, that the
report of Aeschines was true, and that destruction had overtaken not themselves
but the Thebans.
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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