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“Letter[Philip,
king of Macedonia, to the public
officers and councillors of the allied Peloponnesians and to all his other
Allies, greeting. Since the Ozolian Locrians, settled at Amphissa, are outraging the temple of
Apollo at Delphi and come in
arms to plunder the sacred territory, I consent to join you in helping the
god and in punishing those who transgress in any way the principles of
religion. Therefore meet under arms at Phocis with forty days' provisions in
the next month, styled Lous by us, Boedromion by the Athenians, and Panemus
by the Corinthians. Those who, being pledged to us, do not join us in full
force, we shall treat as punishable. Farewell.]”
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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