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Then he came to me and
proposed that we should act together on the embassy, being especially urgent
that we should jointly keep watch upon that infamous scoundrel Philocrates. And
until after our return from the first embassy I at least, men of Athens, had no suspicion that he was
corrupt and had already sold himself. For apart from the speeches which, as I
said, he had made on former occasions, he rose at the first of the two
assemblies at which you discussed terms of peace, and began with an exordium
which I believe I can repeat to you in the very words he used:
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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