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‘τί οὖν, ἄνθρωπε, λέγεις,’ εἴ τις ἔροιτό με, ‘καὶ πόθεν ἄρχει κατηγορεῖν;’ ὅθεν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, βουλευομένων ὑμῶν, οὐ περὶ τοῦ εἰ ποιητέον εἰρήνην ἢ μή （ἐδέδοκτο γὰρ ἤδη τοῦτό γε） ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ποίαν τινά, τοῖς τὰ δίκαια λέγουσιν ἀντειπὼν τῷ μισθοῦ γράφοντι συνεῖπε δῶρα λαβών, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτ᾽ ἐπὶ τοὺς ὅρκους αἱρεθείς, ὧν μὲν ὑμεῖς προσετάξατε, οὐδ᾽ ὁτιοῦν ἐποίησε, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῦ πολέμου διασωθέντας ἀπώλεσε τῶν συμμάχων, καὶ τηλικαῦτα καὶ τοιαῦτ᾽ ἐψεύσαθ᾽ ἡλίκ᾽ οὐδεὶς πώποτ᾽ ἄλλος ἀνθρώπων οὔτε πρότερον οὔθ᾽ ὕστερον. τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἄχρι τοῦ λόγου τυχεῖν Φίλιππον ὑπὲρ τῆς εἰρήνης, Κτησιφῶν καὶ Ἀριστόδημος τὴν πρώτην ἔφερον τοῦ φενακισμοῦ, ἐπειδὴ δ᾽ εἰς τὸ πράττειν ἤδη τὰ πράγμαθ᾽ ἧκεν, Φιλοκράτει καὶ τούτῳ παρέδωκαν, δεξάμενοι δ᾽ οὗτοι πάντ᾽ ἀπώλεσαν.
Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Oxonii.e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1903.
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