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Accordingly his envoys
warned you that he would not accept the Phocian alliance, but then Aeschines and
his friends, taking up the tale, assured the people that, although for the sake
of the Thebans and the Thessalians Philip could not with decency accept the
alliance, yet if he should become master of the situation, and get his peace, he
would thereafter do exactly what we should now ask him to agree to.
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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