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In this letter
there is no mention of the name of Demosthenes, nor any charge against me. Why
does he forget my acts, when he blames others? Because he could not mention me
without recalling his own transgressions, on which I fixed my attention, and
which I strove to resist. I began by proposing the embassy to Peloponnesus, when first he tried to get a
footing there; then the embassy to Euboea, when he was tampering with Euboea; then an expedition— not an
embassy—to Oreus, and again to Eretria, when he had set up tyrants in those cities.
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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