Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 43

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[43] But, Ctesiphon, it will never do for you to tell the people that, nor would our friend here, meaning me, venture to say to the Athenians that Philip is a man of good memory and great eloquence. And we innocently, not foreseeing the trick of which you shall hear presently, allowed him to bind us in a sort of agreement that we would say this to you.¹ And he begged me earnestly not to fail to tell how Demosthenes also said something in support of our claim to Amphipolis .

On the Embassy. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.

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On the Embassy (English) (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).)

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[43] ταῦτα μέντοι, ἔφη, ὦ Κτησιφῶν, οὔτʼ ἂν σὺ πρὸς τὸν δῆμον εἴποις, οὔτʼ ἂν οὗτος, ἐμὲ δὴ λέγων, τολμήσειεν εἰπεῖν πρὸς Ἀθηναίους, ὡς ὁ Φίλιππος δεινὸς εἰπεῖν καὶ μνημονικός. ἀναισθήτως δὲ ἡμῶν ἐχόντων καὶ τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν οὐ προορωμένων, ἣν αὐτίκα ἀκούσεσθε, εἰς συνθήκην τινὰ ἡμᾶς κατέκλῃσεν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ταῦτʼ ἐρεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς. ἐμοῦ δὲ καὶ δέησιν ἰσχυρὰν ἐδεήθη μὴ παραλιπεῖν, ἀλλʼ εἰπεῖν, ὡς ὑπὲρ Ἀμφιπόλεώς τι καὶ Δημοσθένης εἴποι.

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1. Demosthenes dared them to do it; they accepted the challenge and wagered that they would.

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