Amphissians
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Locrians · Ozolian Locrians
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Against Ctesiphon
The people to whom Demosthenes allegedly hired out Athenian mercenaries.
And by drawing pay for empty places in the mercenary force, by stealing the pay of the troops, and by hiring out those ten thousand mercenaries to the Amphissians against my repeated protests and complaints in the assembly—when the mercenaries had thus been carried off, he rushed the city all unprepared into the mist of peril.
I pass by his corruption in the case of the Amphissians and Euboeans;
Your impiety in the case of the Amphissians and your corruption in the Euboean affair, of which you were clearly convicted by me, perhaps you hope the people have forgotten in the lapse of time;
On the Crown
Locrian inhabitants of Amphissa accused in the sacred-territory dispute.
but the Locrians fell upon them, were within an ace of spearing the whole crowd, and did actually seize and carry off the sacred persons of several commissioners.
Since the Ozolian Locrians, settled at Amphissa, are outraging the temple of Apollo at Delphi and come in arms to plunder the sacred territory, I consent to join you in helping the god and in punishing those who transgress in any way the principles of religion.
He concocted a plausible speech about the legendary origin of the consecration of the Cirrhaean territory, and by this narration induced the commissioners, men unversed in oratory and unsuspicious of consequences, to vote for a tour of survey of the land which the Amphissians said they were cultivating because it belonged to them, while Aeschines accused them of intruding on consecrated ground.