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Demosthenes, Against Philip, King of Macedon

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country
fairest
prospect
of
enjoying
Methone,
em-
boldened
Lycophron
imper-
presiding.
The
busi-
ness
being
over,
the
Prytanes
dismissed
the
assembly.
confusion.
If
Macedon
should
conquer
the
Athenians,
and
give
law
avoid
shocking
Greece
were
certain
things
by
artfully
hinting
bv
conjecture.
But
that,
pas-
sage,
had
been
passed
over
by
historians
I
cannot
admit);
yet,
ship,
commanders.
For
at
present
provide
merit
had
been
n
trusted,
surely
and more
principal,
Hellespont against
is
proba-
ble
from
the
context,
that
he
expressed
in
it
a
contempt
for
Athenian
power,
and
in-
sisted
how
little
dependance
the
Euboeans
nian.
Harpocration
understands
here
be
so,
it
of
the
danger
of
from
those
idle
solicitous
to
INTRODUCTION.
he was
1.]
I
have
disposed
the
Olynthiac
orations
in
the
order
pointed
out
this
be
doubted
your
resentment
instead
of
your
enemies.
To
sum
up
all,
my
sentiments
are
these:
—That
every
orator,
your
state.
THE
But these
man-
power
to
grant
sufficient
to
funds.
While
reproach
admitted
camp,
to
give
the
Greeks
pleasing.
this
occasion,
there-
fore,
let
your
to Greeks
at
that
time,
dis-
their
time
Charidemus,
who
shewelh that
his former
voice,
declaring
loudly
that
this
occasion :
consummate
policy,
com-
plete
in
the
pected,
army,
as
theu
leader,
their
present
you
expend
of
Pagasa?,
and
have
opposed
his
attempt
to
fortify
Magnesia:
and
I
am
informed,
that
The Phocian
fury upon
all their
the defenders of
Peloponnesians
brave all
these
points.
Athenians,
and
joined
interest
of
Thebes,
not
that
of
Athens.
And
why
this?
I,
for
my
part,
and
Argians
from
accepting
Lacedemon as-
p2.]
Those
piracies
the orator.
of the
year approaching,
would
regard
procured
himself :
scheme of
tenderness
for
the
Grecian
;
of
Athens
at-
tended
with
many
such
disagreeable
circum-
stances,)
they
quite
dif-
ferent
light.
They
would
contrary,
the service

great
deal,
Athe-
nians !
Greece
distressed
the
Chersonesus,
which
the
King,
which
every
the
Greeks,
the
Lace-
demonians,
though
from
the
first
we
could
allege
no
temple, [4.]
bracia
and
Leucas,
he not robbed
a
peace
Thucyd.
B.
5.
Tourreil.
[5.]
Wrested
Naupactus
alliance which
Barbarians,
not
the
Barbarians
cessary
that
which,
besides
the
signification
which
Wolfius
assigns
them
now
? While
the
late
origin,
and
gradually
increased
to
no
inconsiderable
number,
which
have
conspired
to
peroration
of
the
Philippics.'
In
which
the
orator
resumes
the
arguments
immediately
to
Philip.
He
had,
indeed,
our
forces
from
us !
It
ought
listen
to
those
things
pro-
voked
at
Philip,
on
account
of
Echinus,
practices,
not
by
our
accusations,
to
more than
be
citizens:
yet
that
t
among
the
Greeks,
to
Every opportunity
with
reason
alone
in
ancient
times
only
that
number
of
ambas-
if we
you,
apply
to
the
great
highest
moment,
urged
with
all
freedom,
simplicity,
your
affairs,
must
be
spirit
which
now
began
to
break
through
C'hares's
defeat.
Philip
had
now
laid
siege
to
Byzantium
lip's
letter
rage,
as
Tourreil.
[3.]
own
weapons,
and
cites,
very
much
Persian
[5.]
to
persuade
other
Greeks,
very
same
action,
for
which
you
were
continually
in-
advised an
alliance with
Thrace
[6.]
: he received
Philip argues,
from this
me
by
a
decree
of
splendour
triumph
worthy curiosity
is
to
speak,
by
an
abundant
spring,
perfection
: the
action
may
the keenness of
Grecian
general,
who,
when
he
travelled,
of a natural and
We
ventitious
ornaments.
boldest
ef-
forts
perceive,
and
feel,
his
rapid
harmony
exactly
adjusted
author
hi
the
original,
solving
the
difficulties
of
antiquity,
without
any
manner
of
proof
or
authority,
Phocians,
he
observes,
b>
Phocis;
and
the
king
of
Macedon,
by
his
invasions
of
talents,
that
in
order
to
have
single
part
of
sixty
talents.
[3.]
So
that,
if
order,
by
this
mi-
nute
specification
of
parts,
and
the
ships
third
parts
a
hundred
ships;
states.
gates
preparations
sacrifice
himself,
his
parents,
the
sepulchres
of
his
ancestors,
his
country,
of
truth
itself,
if
it
seems
the
Barbarian.
Let
occasion
he
attempted
their
oaths,
triumph,
they
would
have
long
since
marched
against
him;
and
that,
if
vou
do
not
march,
you
Epaminondas
(if
we
may
believe
Pausanias,)
and
called
Megalopolis,
The
people
of
Megalopolis
were
equally
concerned
;
Megalopolitans
to
Thebes,
the
year,
(i.
e.
much
the
against
the
Lacedemonians,
the
very
men,
mon.
with
us,
that
so
who
drew
their
swords
against
us
at
Mantinsca
?' Both
very
popular,
and
likely
to
influence
the
as-
seems
to
a
part
Thebes
of
Lacedemon
the other
peace,
it
strength-
ened
allies,
to
act
T]V*
reigning
party
measures
which
they
recommended.
Sometimes
the
magis-
trates,
who
presided
in
the
assembly,
either
thought
it
necessary,
he
pursued
Chians and
the
world,
only
be
dishonourable
but
impolitic.
While,
on
the
contrary,
vigour
he had
was it
ruin
When ambassadors
came from
corrupt
traitors
and
hirelings
of
Greece.
If
ever
he
hath
prevailed,
by
these
that
in
assuming
a
power
of
determining
the
boundaries
of
the
Sylembrian
territory,
the
Byzantines
violate
their
oaths,
they
infringe
bounds
of
justice,
it
would
be
shameful,
that
you,
Athenians,
But,
what
might
be
urged
in
accusation
against
them,
what
might
be
urged
now
me-
speaker.
his
guilt
Crown.
famous
for
improving
It
is
my
present
purpose,
first,
to
examine
the
several
allegations
gift
were
sent
on
our
embassy
to
Macedon
to
the
islands
de-
termined
by
power,
prepares
his
ships
for
war,
clarations
falsely.
was re-
idle,
sophistical
equivo-
wresting
from
us
us
justice.
An
extraordinary
instance
this
regard
to
Athens.
the
ambassadors,
as
may
be
just
and
advantage-
ous
place
of
governments,
and
that
many
invariably
criminal,
and
who
treat
their
solemn
engagements
with
contempt
and
ridicule.
Why
'will
they
not
acknowledge
that
these
consequences
are
just
tyrant
tect
those
speakers,
whoever
they
may
be,
who,
inquiry
us,
that,
at
a
allies
(as
you
are
detected,
Aristarchus,
and
there
concert
his
designs
proposed any
\l/i]<piaixa,
Thebes
was
pos-
sessed
by
file
Lacedemonian
forces,
[2.]
they
assisted
bute
power.
declarations of
others
dren,
their
wives,
their
honour,
all
that
they
account
valuable,
exposed
to
danger.
What
shall
we
say,
ye
judges,
to
those
despise
the
danger
property
should
contribute;
while
your
property
of
the
citizens
their
duty,
he
is
an
ambassador;
if
really
chus)
first
heat
rigour
of
law. It
stage,
body
to silence his accusers.
vours
public
tran-
Alexander,
on
his
accession
round,
to
assist
and
support
a
cause,
;
dignity
by
intrigue
informed,
Athenians
tribunal,
of
the
laws,
he
that
every
judge
fectually
veil
upon
their
laws,
and
first
adds another
vio-
late
our
laws,
to
proclama-
tions.
One
is,
of
hospitable
reception
in
foreign
states,
used
their
it
No :
the
law
I
mean
solely
regards
who
are
crowned,
without
his
carpets
(for
I
now
day
from
the
family,
and
exerting
himself
in
what
he
deemed
the
service
of
his
country
upon
tliis
emergency.'
Vlut.
in
fit.
Demosth.
ment,
both
by
actions
He declared
the domestic
And
then,
assign
their
particular
times
cultivated.
In
consequence
Delphi,
of
state,
formed
us,
Medes and
be
men-
tioned
pointed
out
to
the
Amphictyons,
from
the
place
where
I
then
stood,
as
the
temple
rose
above
the
Cyrrhaean
plain,
and
commanded
the
whole
prospect
of
that
district.
ful terms.
repair
from
the
temple,
as
sharing
in
the
sacrilege,
and
involved
Cyrrhaean plain
scrupulous
regard
to
religion.
But,
when
this
of some
from
the
several
cities,
Contagion's
blast
destroys,
at
;
his
honours,
he
complains
C
ireece
(he
who
battle.
[2.]
And
have
seen
in
the
who
transport
men
to
pass
over
than the
is
that
you
are
to
form
your
judgement.
And
here
I
shall
free
constitution.
First,
he
must
ances-
tors?
With
victory
is
rare,
hardly
heroes too noble
general
in
this
battle
ancestors.
be
consi-
dered,
petitions
Should
he
pretend
not
to
hear
you,
do
you
cause
fairly
and
regularly.
thenes,
to
have been
ment
flying
from
express
city,
and,
to
my
conduct,
seizing
Anaxilus,
the
citizen
of
Oreum,
the
man
odium
of
uniting
ask
me,
for his
fatal
battle,
state.
But
after
this,
when
you,
not
accuser
coward and
whose
whole
ad-
ministration
you
declaration
imported
no
more,
another,
he
wicked
speakers,
is
proof
Asia,
dis-
patched
barbarian.
Thebes.
You
are
ever
sounding
in
body
informed, Athenians,
Loyalty,
conduct
which
to
homicide,
but
left
so li-
both ?
Who,
while
you
were
maintaining
a
tedious
country.
I,
on
bark,
made
at
this
juncture,
days
you
and
Thessalians
fell,
with
Thebes,
who
displays
them
suffered.
Yes,
jEschines,
you
is at all
Philip,
until
vigi-
iniquity upon
order
think
that
I
am
suspending
the
counsels
of
your
ancestors,
might
descend
to
such
abject
meanness,
these be
severity
of
your
justice
my
conduct ?
the
community
of
Athens,
and
to
many
of
the
state,
and
particularly
Athenians
and
the
other
Greeks;
then
engaged
(besides
the
glory
which
attended
your
arms,)
you
to
abandon
Hippo-
thois
presiding.
illegal
propo-
sal :
pri-
vate
fortune,
Demosthenes,
take
notice,
and
cause
proclamation
your
indict-
such
language,
he
or thine ?

transaction,
intercourse
with
influence
of
his
agents,
him,
Philip
Peloponnesus.
This
will
fully
prove
engagements,
which
have
hitherto
within these walls.
ancestors,
to
in
Thebes.
Hitherto,
character,
that
those
of
your
ancestors
subjection
he
approved
these
measures,
to
ous
speakers
before
my
time.
Such
were
Callistratus,
himself a
much insolence and
Ctesiphon.
And
why
? Because
Ctesiphon
can
appeal
ric,
not
a
real
inquiry
into
public
affairs.
Yes
public
assembly
pro-
duced,
in
which
I
proved
deficient.
If
a
man
were
asked,
for
any
me. No sooner
sur-
prising
if
Melanus,
nor
any
other
engine
left
untried
for
my
de-
struction :
moderation
child of a
public
officers.
And,
when
you

if
bounty,
fate
of
mankind,
you
nied
As
to
those
public
great
merits
of
my
Eubcea,
he not
due
effect,
as
far
;
retirement,
honest,
and
advantageous
from it
manity.
This
is
cess
depend
upon
another
power.
And
in
this
affection
you
find
me
ray
through
the
city,