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 412 HISTORY OF GREECE. Probably Philip and his allies would not consent to take the oath, to Athens and her allies, without an express declaration that the Phokians were out of the pale. 1 But though Philokrates and JEschines thus openly repudiated the Phokians, they still peristed .>i affirming that the intentions of Philip towards that people were highly favorable. They affirmed this probably to the Phokians themselves, as an excuse for having pronounced the special exclu- sion ; they repeated it loudly and emphatically at Athens, imme- diately on their return. It was then that Demosthenes also, after having been outvoted and silenced during the mission, obtained an opportunity for making his own protest public. Being among the senators of that year, he made his report to the Senate forth- with, seemingly on the day, or the day next but one, after his ar- rival, before a large audience of private citizens standing by to witness so important a proceeding. He recounted all the proceed- ings of the embassy, recalling the hopes and promises under which ^Eschines and others had persuaded the Athenians to agree to the peace, arraigning these envoys as fabricators, in collu- sion with Philip, of falsehoods and delusive assurances, and ac- cusing them of having already by their unwarrantable delays betrayed Kersobleptes to ruin. Demosthenes at the same time made known to the Senate the near approach and rapid march of Philip ; entreating them to interpose even now at the eleventh hour, for the purpose of preventing what yet remained, the Pho- kians and Thermopylae, from being given up under the like treacherous fallacies. 3 A fleet of fifty triremes had been voted, and were ready at a moment's notice to be employed on sudden occasion. 3 The majority of the Senate went decidedly along with Demosthenes, and passed a resolution 4 in that sense to be sub 1 Demosthen. Fals. Leg. p. 355. IK TOV, ore TOVC opKovf f/f bfivvvaL rot)f iTfpi T)?f flpTjvijf, I K a it 6 v 6 ovf UTT o rivav Kal K rpffo/W.eTrr)?!', Trapd TO ip^ia^a Kal TO. irpof v/j.af ueva, etc. ; also p. 430. 2 Deinosth. Fals. Leg. p. 346. 3 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 444. i' qv al irei'TJjKavra Tpiqpetf o^uf tyup liovv, etc. Compare ^Escliincs, Fals. Leg. p. 33. 4 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 320, 351. Demosthenes causes this resolution of the Senate (irpoiiovfavpa) to l>e read to the Dikasts, together with ih.i