[142] first he persuaded the people to give up all consideration of the terms of the alliance, and to count themselves fortunate if only it were made; and when he had gained this point he betrayed all
Boeotia
to the Thebans by writing in the decree,
If any city refuse to follow
Thebes
, the Athenians shall aid the Boeotians in
Thebes
,
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cheating with words and altering the facts, as he is wont to do; as though, forsooth, when the Boeotians should be suffering in fact, they would be content with Demosthenes’ fine phrases, rather than indignant at the outrageous way in which they had been treated;
Against Ctesiphon. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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