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at that time there were some who assured us that Thespiae and Plataea would be rebuilt, that Philip, if he gained the
mastery, would protect the Phocians and break up Thebes into villages, and that you would retain Oropus and
receive Euboea in exchange for
Amphipolis. Led on by these
false hopes and cajoleries, you abandoned the Phocians against your own
interests and against justice and honor. But you will find that I neither took
part in this deception, nor passed it over in silence, but spoke out boldly, as
I am sure you remember, saying that I had neither knowledge nor expectation of
such results and that all such talk was nonsense.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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