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With
Aeschines as their trusty guide, the Amphictyons began their tour of the
territory; but the Locrians fell upon them, were within an ace of spearing the
whole crowd, and did actually seize and carry off the sacred persons of several
commissioners. Complaints were promptly laid, and so war against the Amphissians
was provoked. At the outset Cottyphus was commander of an army composed of
Amphictyons; but some divisions never joined, and those who joined did nothing
at all. The persons engaged in the plot, mostly scoundrels of old standing from
Thessaly and other states, prepared
to put the war into Philip's hands at the next congress.
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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