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For if he should
accept the Phocians as allies, and with your help take the oath of friendship to
them, he must at once violate the oaths he had already sworn to the Thessalians
and the Thebans, with the latter of whom he had covenanted to help them in the
subjugation of Boeotia, and with the
former to restore their rights at the Amphictyonic Council. If, on the other
hand, he was loth to accept them—and in fact the prospect did not
please him—he expected that you would send troops to Thermopylae to stop his passage, as
indeed you would have done if you had not been outwitted. In that event, he
calculated that he would be unable to get through.
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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