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Aeschines, On the Embassy, section 108 (search)
Accordingly, fellow citizens, when the ambassadors were assembled at Pella, and Philip had arrived, and the herald called the ambassadors of the Athenians, we came forward, not in the order of age, as in the former embassy—a procedure which found favour with some, and which seemed to be in accord with the orderly way of our cityThe Athenian “way” in such matters is described in Aeschin. 3.2.—but in the way that was dictated by the effrontery of Demosthenes. For he said that he was the youngest of all, but declared that he could not yield the position of first speaker, and would not permit a certain person—hinting at me—to take possession of Philip's ears and leave the rest no chan
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, section 160 (search)
Demosthenes, On the Halonnesus, section 7 (search)
But when he says that
he is willing to arbitrate, he is merely mocking you. In the first place, he
expects Athenians to refer to arbitration, as against this upstart from
Pella, the question whether the
islands are yours or his. If you cannot preserve your maritime possessions by
your might that once saved Hellas, but
rely on any jury to whom you refer it, and whose verdict is final, to preserve
them for you, provided always that Philip does not buy their votes,
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 68 (search)
Surely no man will dare to call it becoming that in a man reared at Pella, then a mean and insignificant city,
such lofty ambition should be innate as to covet the dominion of all Greece, and admit that aspiration to his soul,
while you, natives of Athens,
observing day by day, in every speech you hear and ill every spectacle you
behold, memorials of the high prowess of your forefathers, should sink to such
cowardice as by a spontaneous, voluntary act to surrender your liberty to a
Philip.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 155 (search)
So I got them
away from Athens, but quite against
their will, as you will easily learn from their subsequent behavior. When we had
arrived at Oreus and joined Proxenus, instead of obeying their instructions and
proceeding by sea, they started on a roundabout tour. We had wasted
three-and-twenty days before we reached Macedonia; and all the rest of the time, making, with the time
consumed by the journey, fifty days in all, until the arrival of Philip, we were
dawdling at Pella.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 166 (search)
Take
next the period of our loitering at Pella, and compare the employments which we severally chose for
ourselves. Mine was to seek out and rescue the captives, spending money of my
own, and asking Philip to apply to their ransom the money he was spending on
hospitable gifts for us. But what Aeschines constantly tried to effect, you
shall hear in a moment. What then was it? It was that Philip should give us a
lump sum as a collective present.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 169 (search)
Let me now
tell you how many of the captives I ransomed myself. For while we were staying
at Pella, before Philip's arrival,
some of the prisoners,—all in fact who were out on
bail,—having, I suppose, no confidence that they would afterwards be
able to induce Philip to move, told me that they were willing to provide for
their own ransom without putting themselves under obligation to Philip, and
offered to borrow their ransom-money, three minas, five minas, or as the case
might
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 7, chapter 123 (search)
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 103 (search)
About this time it was that the people of Damascus, out of their
hatred to Ptolemy, the son of Menhens, invited Aretas [to take the government],
and made him king of Celesyria. This man also made an expedition against
Judea, and beat Alexander in battle; but afterwards retired by mutual agreement.
But Alexander, when he had taken Pella, marched to Gerasa again, out of
the covetous desire he had of Theodorus's possessions; and when he had
built a triple wall about the garrison, he took the place by force. He
also demolished Golan, and Seleucia, and what was called the Valley of
Antiochus; besides which, he took the strong fortress of Gamala, and stripped
Demetrius, who was governor therein, of what he had, on account of the
many crimes laid to his charge, and then returned into Judea, after he
had been three whole years in this expedition. And now he was kindly received
of the nation, because of the good success he had. So when he was at rest
from war, he fell into a distemper; for he
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 133 (search)
At this his behavior Pompey had great indignation; Hyrcanus also
and his friends made great intercessions to Pompey; so he took not only
his Roman forces, but many of his Syrian auxiliaries, and marched against
Aristobulus. But when he had passed by Pella and Scythopolis, and was come
to Corea, where you enter into the country of Judea, when you go up to
it through the Mediterranean parts, he heard that Aristobulus was fled
to Alexandrium, which is a strong hold fortified with the utmost magnificence,
and situated upon a high mountain; and he sent to him, and commanded him
to come down. Now his inclination was to try his fortune in a battle, since
he was called in such an imperious manner, rather than to comply with that
call. However, he saw the multitude were in great fear, and his friends
exhorted him to consider what the power of the Romans was, and how it was
irresistible; so he complied with their advice, and came down to Pompey;
and when he had made a long apology for himself,