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How, then, is this date proved? On the
twenty-seventh, when you were holding an assembly at Peiraeus to discuss
dockyard business, Dercylus arrived from Chalcis with the intelligence that Philip had put the whole
affair into the hands of the Thebans, and he computed that it was then the
fourth day after the convention. Twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five,
twenty-six, twenty-seven: that makes it the fourth day. Therefore these dates,
together with their own reports and decrees, all convict these men of having
co-operated with Philip, and they share with him the guilt of the destruction of
the Phocians.
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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