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But when he had reached Thermopylae, and when the Lacedaemonians, detecting the snare,
had withdrawn, he sent Aeschines as his agent in advance for your deception,
lest, when you discovered that he was acting in the interest of the Thebans, he
should be involved once more in delays and fighting and waste of time with the
Phocians resisting him, and you helping them. In this way he hoped to obtain
complete mastery without a struggle. And so it fell out. Aeschines, then, must
not escape punishment for deceiving you, merely because Philip deceived the
Lacedaemonians and the Phocians. That would be unjust indeed.
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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