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Now look at the decree, which Philocrates
afterwards drafted and handed to the clerk. It sounds well enough to the ear;
but if you will take into account the occasion on which it was proposed, and the
promises which Aeschines was making at the time, it will be clear that they were
simply handing over the Phocians to Philip and the Thebans—I might
almost say, with shackles on their wrists. Read the decree.“
Decree
”
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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