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For he did not allege in his report that, but for the
Lacedaemonians, but for their refusal to receive Proxenus, but for Hegesippus,
but for this or that, the Phocians would have been delivered. He passed over all
that, and declared explicitly that before his return he had persuaded Philip to
deliver the Phocians, to repopulate Boeotia, and to put the whole business into your hands; that it
would all be accomplished within two or three days, and that in revenge the
Thebans had set a price upon his head.
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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