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 FALSEHOOD OF AESCHINES. 399 indeed to decree the special exclusion of the Phokians, as Philo krates had at first proposed, but to swear the convention with Antipater and Parmenio without the Phokians. 1 These latter were thus shut out in fact, though by the general words of the peace, Athens had recognized their right to be included. Their deputies were probably present, claimed to be admitted, and were refused by Antipater, without any peremptory protest on the part of Athens. This tissue, not of mere exaggerations, but of impudent and monstrous falsehood, respecting the purposes of Philip, will be seen to continue until he had carried his point of penetrating within the pass of Thermopylae, and even afterwards. We can hardly wonder that the people believed it, when proclaimed and guaranteed to them by Philokrates, JEschines, and the other en- voys, who had been sent into Macedonia for the express purpose of examining on the spot and reporting, and whose assurance was 1 Demosthenes, !Fals. Leg. p. 444. ivrevdev ot /zi> Trap' kKeivov npoiiheyov iuiv OTI 4>cjeaf o v irpoatiexeTa i avfipaxovf, OVTOI <5' K 6ex6fie VOL Toiavr' 1 edrj- (ir)-yopovv, (Jf (j>avspuf fiev oii^l aAwf f#i rtj OtthiinrQ rpoo del; aa&ai roj)f 4>u/ca? avfijiuxovf, dia roiif Qtj(3al.ovf Kal ret)? Ocrra/loiif, uv 6e -yevrjTai TUV Trpay/j.aTuv Kvpiof Kal rt}f elprjvris TV- Xy, uTrep uv avv&t(rdai vvv u^iuaaifisv avrbv, ravra noif'CTEi rare. Tr/v fiev roivvv eipqv TJV ravraif rate e?.ir ta t Kal raif lira- yuyatf evpovro nap' v fiuv uvev $UKEUV. Ibid. p. 409. Ei 6e iruvra TUVUVTM TOVTUV KOL Tro/l/la Kal ^i/lavdpuTra el~ Qihnnrov, fyiXelv TTJV TroAtv, 4>uKfaf auaeiv, Qrjj3aiov(iravaeiv rrjf, Ti Trpbf Tovroif fi e i o v a q /car' 'A.[t'nro%.iv ev ITOIJJ- tiftiif, iuv riixv T %C eipijvrjf, EvjSoiav, 'Qpunbv eiv el raiJr' L~6vTe$ Kal vTroox<'>[ttvoi TTUVT' i^TjiraT^Kaai Kal Tre^e- etc. Compare also, p. 346, 388, 391, about the false promises under which the Athenians were induced to consent to the peace riJv vKoaxsasuv, t' atf eirei- C&TITS Troiijaaadai TT)V eipijvrjv. This second Philippic is one year earlier in date than the oration de Falsa Legatione, and is better authority than that oration, not merely on account of its earlier date, but because it is g parliamentary harangue, not tainted with an accusatory purpose nor men tioning ^Eschines by name.