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Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 4 (search)
Now no one would deny that our city is benefited by the weakness of the
Lacedaemonians and of the Thebans yonder.A
gesture reminds his hearers how near neighbors the Thebans were. The
position of affairs, then, if one may judge from statements repeatedly made in
your Assembly, is such that the Thebans will be weakened by the refounding of
Orchomenus, Thespiae and Plataea, but the Lacedaemonians will regain their power, if
they get Arcadia into their hands and
destroy Megalopolis.
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 Megaloand 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 Crown, section 208 (search)
But no; you cannot,
men of Athens, you cannot have done
wrongly when you accepted the risks of war for the redemption and the liberties
of mankind; I swear it by our forefathers who bore the brunt of warfare at
Marathon, who stood in array of battle at Plataea, who fought in the sea-fights of Salamis and Artemisium, and by all the brave men
who repose in our public sepulchres, buried there by a country that accounted
them all to be alike worthy of the same honor —all, I say, Aeschines,
not the successful and the victorious alone. So justice bids: for by all the
duty of brave men was accomplished: their fortune was such as Heaven severally
allotted to them
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 21 (search)
of
the repopulation of Thespiae and
Plataea, and of the recovery of
Apollo's treasure, not from the Phocians, but from the Thebans, who had planned
the seizure of the temple. It was himself, he added, who had instructed Philip
that those who contrived the project were quite as sacrilegious as the men by
whose hands it was executed; and therefore the Thebans had set a price on his
head!
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 42 (search)
All this chicanery, and much besides, might
have been instantly detected, and you might have been informed and spared the
sacrifice of your interests, if you had not been cheated out of the truth by
that story of Thespiae and Plataea and the imminent punishment of the
Thebans. Yet if Philip's promises were merely for show, and if the city was to
be deluded, it was right to mention them; if, on the other hand, they were
really to be fulfilled, it was best to say nothing about them. For if the
project was so far matured that the Thebans could gain nothing by hearing of it,
why has it not been executed? But if it has been thwarted because they had news
of it in time, who let the secret out?
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 112 (search)
For he had told you that Philip would fortify
Thespiae and Plataea, would not destroy the Phocians,
and would put a stop to the aggressions of the Thebans; but Philip has made the
Thebans dangerously strong, he has exterminated the Phocians, and, instead of
fortifying Thespiae and Plataea, he has enslaved Orchomenus and Coronea as well. Could contradiction go further? Yet Aeschines
offered noPlataea, he has enslaved Orchomenus and Coronea as well. Could contradiction go further? Yet Aeschines
offered no opposition; he never opened his lips or made a single objection. That
was bad—but not bad enough for him. He did what no other man in all
Athens did—he spoke in
support of the envoys. Even that miscreant Philocrates durst not go so far as
that—only this man Aeschines. When you raised a clamor, and refused to
hear
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 325 (search)
In this manner and by
the aid of this artifice our ruin was accomplished by men themselves doomed to
perdition. For at once, instead of witnessing the restoration of Thespiae and Plataea, you heard of the enslavement of Orchomenus and Coronea. Instead of the humiliation of Thebes and the abasement of her pride and
insolence, the walls of your own allies the Phocians were demolished, and
demolished by those very Thebans whom Aeschines in his speech had sent to live
in scattered villages.
Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, section 200 (search)
Or take Perdiccas, who
was reigning in Macedonia at the time
of the Persian invasion, and who destroyed the Persians on their retreat from
Plataea, and made the defeat of
the King irreparable. They did not resolve that any man should be liable to
seizure who killed Perdiccas, the man who for our sake had provoked the enmity
of the great King; they gave him our citizenship, and that was all. The truth is
that in those days to be made a citizen of Athens was an honor so precious in the eyes of the world that,
to earn that favour alone, men were ready to render to you those memorable
services. Today it is so worthless that not a few men who have already received
it have wrought worse mischief to you than your declared enemies.