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For after he had been elected your deputy,In 343 b.c. he received two thousand drachmas from the Amphissians, in return for which he was to see that no mention of them should he made in the assembly of the Amphictyons. And it was agreed with him that thereafter twenty minas of the accursed and abominable money should he sent to Athens to him yearly, on condition that he at Athens aid the Amphissians in every way. In consequence of this it has come to pass even more than before, that whatsoever he touches, be it private citizen, or ruler, or democratic state, becomes entangled, every one, in irreparable misfortune.
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Now behold how providence and fortune triumphed over the impiety of the Amphissians. It was in the archonship of Theophrastus;340/39 b.c. Diognetus of Anaphlystus was our hieromnemon; as pylagoriThe hieromnemon, selected annually by lot, was the official representative of the state in the Amphictyonic Council; the three pylagori were selected by vote as his advisors. The pylagori had the privilege of taking part in the debates of the Amphictyonic Council, but the vote of the state was cast by the hieromnemon. you elected Meidias of Anagyrus, whom you all remember—I wish for many reasons he were still livingSee on Aeschin. 3.53.—and Thrasycles of Oeum; I was the third. But it happened that we were no sooner come to Delphi than Diognetus, the hieromnemon, fell sick with fever; the same misfortune had befallen Meidias already.