[156]
Now hand me
the letter which Philip dispatched to his Peloponnesian allies, when the Thebans
disobeyed him. Even that letter will give you a clear proof that he was
concealing the true reasons of his enterprise, namely his designs against
Greece, and especially against
Thebes and Athens, and was only pretending zeal for
the national interests as defined by the Amphictyonic Council. But the man who
provided him with that basis of action and those pretexts was Aeschines. Read.
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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