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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 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 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 20 (search)
But these, I take it, are the allegations
of men who want once again to drive the Megalopolitans elsewhere for an
alliance. Now I know, as far as reasoning and conjecture can teach me, and I
think that most of you will agree with me, that if the Lacedaemonians take
Megalopolis, Messene will be in danger; and if they
take Messene also, I say that we
shall find ourselves in alliance with Thebes.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 22 (search)
For I cannot
regard it as a pledge of our security, that the Lacedaemonians should seize
Megalopolis and grow great
once more, seeing as I do that even now they have not taken up arms to avenge an
injury, but to recover the power that once was theirs; and what their ambition
was in the day of their power, you know perhaps better than I, and will distrust
them accordingly.
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, For the Megalopolitans, section 30 (search)
Then again I think that you must bear this
in mind, that if you reject the Megalopolitans and they are overthrown and
decentralized,By destroying their
metropolis and compelling them to live in scattered and unwalled
villages. the Lacedaemonians can at once be a great power, or if they
do escape destruction—for such miracles have happened before
now—they are bound to be the staunch friends of Thebes; but if you accept them as allies,
Megalopolis will indeed owe
its immediate deliverance to you, but we must put on one side all calculation of
risk, and consider what will be the effect upon our relations with Thebes and Spar
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 11 (search)
It was he who afterwards, on his return from
Arcadia, gave a report of the fine
long orations which he said he had delivered as your spokesman before the Ten
Thousand at Megalopolis in
reply to Philip's champion Hieronymus, and he made a long story of the enormous
harm which corrupt statesmen in the pay of Philip were doing not only to their
own countries but to the whole of Greece.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 198 (search)
Maddened by these indignities, she jumped to her
feet, upset the table, and fell at the knees of Iatrocles. If he had not rescued
her, she would have perished, the victim of a drunken orgy, for the drunkenness
of this blackguard is something terrible. The story of this girl was told even
in Arcadia, at a meeting of the Ten
ThousandThe Assembly of the Arcadian
Confederacy, meeting at Megalopolis.; it was related by Diophantus at
Athens in a report which I will
compel him to repeat in evidence; and it was common talk in Thessaly and everywhere.