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But the Thessalians aimed at the aggrandizement
neither of Thebes nor of Philip,
because they felt that all that would tell against them; but they were anxious
to control the council at Thermopylae and the Delphian temple1—two clear gains for them; and it was this ambition that
led them to join in the war. So you will find that each of these powers was
induced for private reasons to do much that it did not wish. That, however, is
emphatically what we must avoid.
1 The Amphictyonic Council met in autumn at the temple of Demeter near Thermopylae, and at Delphi in spring.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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