in Phocis, and of all the other evils which the Hellenes have endured.
Yes, it is evident that you are pained at what has come to pass,
Aeschines, and that you are sorry for the Thebans, when you have property
in Boeotia[n] and are farming the land that was theirs; and that I rejoice
at it--I, whose surrender was immediately demanded by the author of the
disaster! {42} But I have digressed into subjects of which it will perhaps
be more convenient to speak presently. I will return to the proofs which
show that it is the crimes of these men that are the cause of our
condition to-day.

For when you had been deceived by Philip, through the agency of these men,
who while serving as ambassadors had sold themselves and made a report in
which there was not a word of truth--when the unhappy Phocians had been
deceived and their cities annihilated--what followed? {43} The despicable
Thessalians and the slow-witted Thebans regarded Philip as their friend,
their benefactor, their saviour. Philip was their all-in-all. They would
not even listen to the voice of any one who wished to express a different
opinion. You yourselves, though you viewed what had been done with
suspicion and vexation, nevertheless kept the Peace; for there was nothing
else that you could have done. And the other Hellenes, who, like
yourselves, had been deluded and disappointed of their hopes,[n] also kept
the Peace, and gladly;[n] since in a sense they also were remotely aimed
at by the war. {44} For when Philip was going about and subduing the
Illyrians and Triballi and some of the Hellenes as well, and bringing many
large forces into his own power, and when some of the members of the
several States were taking advantage of the Peace to travel to Macedonia,
and were being corrupted--Aeschines among them--at such a time all of
those whom Philip had in view in thus making his preparations were really
being attacked by him. {45} Whether they failed to realize it is another
question, which does not concern me. For I was continually uttering