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1 Demosthenes to the Council and the Assembly
sends greeting.
A letter has come from Antiphilus2 to the councillors of the allies,3 which, while satisfactorily phrased for those who wish to have good news
in prospect, leaves many items unacceptable to those who toady to Antipater. These men,
taking along with them the dispatch from Antipater that came to Corinth addressed to
Deinarchus,4 have filled all the cities in the
Peloponnesus with such reports as I pray that the gods may turn back upon their own heads.
1 Schaefer thinks this letter to be the work of a scribe in the council of the Greek allies.
2 From Plut. Phoc. 24 we learn that Antiphilus was commanding the army of the allies besieging Antipater in Lamia, winter of 323-322 B.C.
3 The council of the allies is thought to have been meeting at Phylê in northern Attica.
4 Deinarchus, youngest of the ten Attic orators, was opposed to Demosthenes and favored Macedon. His speech accusing Demosthenes of receiving twenty talents from Harpalus is extant. At the date of this letter he was in exile at Corinth, his birthplace.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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