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Aeschines, on the other hand, gave
away and sold Amphipolis, a city
which the King of Persia and all
Greece recognized as yours,
speaking in support of the resolution moved by Philocrates. It was highly
becoming in him, was it not to remind us of Solon? Not content with this
performance at home, he went to Macedonia, and never mentioned the place with which his mission
was concerned. So he stated in his own report, for no doubt you remember how he
said “I, too, had something to say about Amphipolis, but I left it out to give
Demosthenes a chance of dealing with that subject.”
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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