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And the man who was hand-in-glove
with Philip, and helped him to win that blind confidence, who brought lying
reports to Athens and deluded his
fellow-citizens, was this same Aeschines who to day bewails the sorrows of the
Thebans and recites their pitiful story, being himself guilty of those sorrows,
guilty of the distresses of the Phocians, guilty of all the sufferings of every
nation in Greece. Yes, Aeschines,
beyond a doubt, you are sincerely grieved by that tale of woe, you are wrung
with pity for the poor Thebans, you, who hold estates in Boeotia, you, who till the farms that once
were theirs; it is I who exult—I, who was at once claimed as a victim
by the perpetrator1 of those wrongs!
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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