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So we were
engaged in thanksgiving, and the Thebans in the deliverance that they owed to
us. The situation was reversed, and a nation that, thanks to the intrigues of
Aeschines and his party, seemed on the verge of suing for aid, was now giving
aid in pursuance of the advice which you accepted from me. But indeed, what sort
of language Philip gave vent to at that time, and how seriously he was
discomposed, you shall learn from letters sent by him to Peloponnesus. Please take and read them, that
the jury may learn the real effect of my perseverance, of my journeys and
hardships, and of that profusion of decrees at which Aeschines was just now
scoffing.
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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