[116]
Now look
at a recent, but most convincing, proof that he sold himself to Philip. You
know, I am sure, that, not long ago, when Hypereides impeached Philocrates, I
rose and said that I was dissatisfied with the impeachment in one respect: it
implied that all these grave misdemeanors had been committed by Philocrates
alone, and not by any of the other nine ambassadors. That, I remarked, was
impossible; for by himself Philocrates would have counted for nothing, if he had
none of his colleagues to act with him.
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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