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Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 8 (search)
But if the Lacedaemonians act unjustly and insist on
fighting, then, on the one hand, if the only question to be decided is whether
we shall abandon Megalopolis to
them or not, just indeed it is not, but I for my part agree to allow it and to
offer no opposition to the people who shared the same dangers with usAt Mantinea.; but, on the other hand, if you are all
aware that the capture of Megalopolis will be followed by an attack on Messene, I ask any of those who are now so
hard on the Megalopolitans to tell me what he will advise us to do then.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 9 (search)
But I shall get no answer. Yet you all know
that, whether these speakers advise it or not, you are bound to help the
Messenians, both for the sake of your sworn agreement with them and for the
advantage that you derive from the preservation of their city. Just ask
yourselves at what point you would begin to make your stand against
Lacedaemonian injustice with more honor and generosity—with the
defence of Megalopolis or with
the defence of Messene
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 10 (search)
In the one case, you will show yourselves ready to
help the Arcadians and eager to confirm the peace for which you faced danger on
the field of battle. In the other case, everyone will see clearly that you wish
to preserve Messene less for the
sake of justice than for fear of the Lacedaemonians. But the proper course is in
all things to find out what is right and then do it, though at the same time we
must take care that what we do is expedient as well.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 17 (search)
but they want it to be generally supposed that they
are co-operating with each state to recover the territory that it claims, so
that when they march against Messene on their own account, all the others will join heartily
in the expedition, or else will put themselves in the wrong by making no
adequate return for the support they have enjoyed in regaining what each state
claimed as its own.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 18 (search)
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 20 (search)
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 25 (search)
In order,
then, that this unwillingness may not stand in the way of the weakening of
Thebes, let us admit that
Thespiae, Orchomenus and Plataea ought to be restored, and let us
co-operate with their inhabitants and appeal to the other states, for it is a
just and honorable policy not to allow ancient cities to be uprooted; but at the
same time let us not abandon Megalopolis and Messene to their oppressors, nor allow the restoration of
Plataea and Thespiae to blind us to the destruction of
existing and established states.
Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander, section 4 (search)
Therefore when Alexander,
contrary to the oaths and the compacts as set forth in the general peace,
restored those tyrants, the sons of Philiades,Tyrant of Messene in the time
of Philip. His sons, Neon and Thrasymachus, were expelled but restored by
Alexander. Polybius, himself an Arcadian, born a century and a half later,
enters a vigorous protest against Demosthenes' condemnation of
Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander, section 7 (search)
But these champions of tyranny might urge
that the sons of Philiades were tyrants of Messene before the compact was made, and that that was why
Alexander restored them. But it is a ridiculous principle to expel the Lesbian
tyrants on the ground that their rule is an outrage—I mean the tyrants
of Antissa and Eresus, who
established themselves before the agreement—and yet to imagine that it
re tyrants of Messene before the compact was made, and that that was why
Alexander restored them. But it is a ridiculous principle to expel the Lesbian
tyrants on the ground that their rule is an outrage—I mean the tyrants
of Antissa and Eresus, who
established themselves before the agreement—and yet to imagine that it
is a matter of indifference at Messene, where the same harsh system pr