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If as an offset to the
Phocians and Thermopylae and
all our other losses he tells you that the city still retains the Chersonese, I adjure you not to accept that
excuse. In addition to the wrongs he has done you by his embassy, you must not
suffer him by his defence also to fasten upon the city the reproach that, while
stealthily securing some of your own possessions, you made sacrifice of the
safety of your allies. You did no such thing. Peace was concluded; the
Chersonese was secure; and then for
the four ensuing months the Phocians were not imperilled, until you were
deceived, and the Phocians destroyed, by this man's mendacity.
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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