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The war at
Amphissa, that is, the war
that brought Philip to Elatea, and caused the election, as general of the
Amphictyons, of a man who turned all Greece upside down, was due to the machinations of this man. In
his own single person he was the author of all our worst evils. I protested
instantly; I raised my voice in Assembly; I cried aloud, “You are
bringing war into Attica, Aeschines, an
Amphictyonic war;” but a compact body of men, sitting there under his
direction, would not let me speak, and the rest were merely astonished and
imagined that I was laying an idle charge in private spite.
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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