78 Demosthenes to the Council and the Assembly sends greeting.
A letter has come from Antiphilus79 to the councillors of the allies,80 which, while satisfactorily phrased for those who wish to have good news in prospect, leaves many items unacceptable to those who toady to Antipater. These men, taking along with them the dispatch from Antipater that came to Corinth addressed to Deinarchus,81 have filled all the cities in the Peloponnesus with such reports as I pray that the gods may turn back upon their own heads.
[sect. 2] The man who now presents himself to you along with the bearer of this letter from me, having come from Polemaestus to the latter's brother Epinicus,82 a man well disposed toward you and a friend of mine, was by him in turn brought to me. After I heard his story it seemed to me best to send him to you in order that, having heard a clear account of all that had happened in the camp from one who was present in the battle, you may be of good cheer for the present and assume that, the gods being willing, the final outcome will be as you wish. Farewell.
