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Resolutions
When now, fellow citizens, the Dionysia were past and the assemblies took place, in the first assembly a resolution of the synod of the allies was read,
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the substance of which I will give briefly before having it read to you. First, they provided only that you should take counsel regarding peace, and omitted the word
alliance—and that not inadvertently, but because they looked upon even the peace as necessary, rather than honorable; secondly, they met Demosthenes’ bribery with a well-chosen remedy,
Against Ctesiphon. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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