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15 Nevertheless, in spite of these conditions, I shall not desist from what I had in mind to say. For I have come before you, not to seek your favor nor to solicit your votes, but to make known the views I hold, first, regarding the proposals which have been put before you by the Prytaneis,The Senate of the Five Hundred was divided into ten committees of 50, each serving a tenth part of the year. Such a committee was called a prytany and its members prytaneis. The prytany formulated measures to be brought before the General Assembly. and, second, regarding the other interests of the state; for no good will come of the resolutions which have now been made regarding the peaceSee Introduction, p. 2, note c. unless we are well advised also with regard to what remains to be done.

16 I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind, and that we should adopt, not the covenants of peace which certain partiesEubulus, whose terms of peace were, apparently, not broad enough. have recently drawn up, but those which we have entered intoThe Peace of Antalcidas. See Isoc. 4.115, note a. with the king of Persia and with the Lacedaemonians, which ordain that the Hellenes be independent, that the alien garrisons be removed from the several states, and that each people retain its own territory. For we shall not find terms of peace more just than these nor more expedient for our city.