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Κατά Κτησιφώντος Aeschines
67 stole away the opportunities of the city by making the motion that the prytanes call an assembly for the eighth day of Elaphebolion, the day of the sacrifice to Asclepius, and the introductory day of the festivalThe Great Dionysia, April 5th, 346 b.c.—the sacred day—a thing that no man remembers ever to have been done before. And what was his pretext? In order, he says, that if Philip’s ambassadors shall by that time have arrived, the people may most speedily deliberate on their relations with Philip. He thus appropriates the assembly for the ambassadors in advance, before their arrival, cutting short your time, and hurrying on the whole business; and this was in order that you might make the peace, not in cooperation with the other Greeks, on the return of your ambassadors,The ambassadors who had been sent out to call other Greek states to unite against Philip. but alone.
68 After this, fellow citizens, Philip’s ambassadors arrivedIt seems that Philip’s ambassadors did not arrive in time for the discussion appointed for the 8th; but they were in Athens during at least a part of the Dionysia (Aeschin. 3.76). but yours were absent, summoning the Greeks against Philip. Thereupon Demosthenes carries another resolution, in which he provides that we take counsel, not only regarding peace, but on the subject of an alliance also; and that we should do this without waiting for your ambassadors to return, but immediately after the City Dionysia, on the 18th and 19th of the month. As proof of the truth of what I say, hear the resolutions.
69 Resolutions

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