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Peace, then, we owe to the generals; a perilous, insecure, and precarious
peace to these men and their venality. Put a stop, then, to his eloquence about
the peace. Make him address himself to his own performances. Aeschines is not on
trial for the peace; the peace is discredited through Aeschines. That is easily
proved. Suppose that the peace had been concluded, and that you had not
thereafter been deluded, and none of your allies destroyed—what human
being would the peace have aggrieved? I mean, apart from the consideration that
it was not a glorious peace. For that fault Aeschines is indeed partly to blame,
as he supported Philocrates. However, in the case supposed, no incurable
mischief would have been done. As the case stands, he is answerable for a great
deal.
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