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This curse, these oaths, and this oracle stand recorded to this day; yet the Locrians of Amphissa, or rather their leaders, most lawless of men, did till the plain, and they rebuilt the walls of the harbor that was dedicate and accursed, and settled there and collected port-dues from those who sailed into the harbor and of the deputies1 who came to Delphi they corrupted some with money, one of whom was Demosthenes.

1 See on Aeschin. 3.115.

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