and that in addition to these forces the citizen troops would be ready, from the Peloponnesus more than two thousand hoplites, and as many more from Acarnania that the leadership of them all was given to you, and that all this was going to be done, not after a long interval, but by the 16th of Anthesterion;1 for he himself had given notice in the cities, and invited all the delegates to come to Athens by the time of the full moon to take part in a congress.2 For this is Demosthenes' personal and peculiar way of doing things:
Aeschines. Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919.
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