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Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 162 (search)
To prove,
moreover, that we should have caught Philip at the Hellespont, if my advice had been taken and your directions
obeyed in the terms of the decrees, call the witnesses who were there
present.
Witnesses
Now read the other deposition testifying
to the answer made by Philip to EucleidesEucleides: sent to protest against Philip's invasion of the dominions of
Cersobleptes. here, who arrived later. (The Deposition is read)
Deposition
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 180 (search)
Yet no man could point out two
places in the whole world of more importance to the commonwealth than Thermopylae by land and the Hellespont by sea; and both of them these men
have infamously sold and delivered into the hands of Philip. What an enormous
offence, apart from all the rest, is the surrender of Thrace and the Thracian outposts, I could show
by a thousand reasons; and it would be easy to point to many men who for such
betrayals have been sentenced to death or mulcted in large sums of money in this
court,—Ergophilus, Cephisodotus, Timomachus, and, in old times,
Ergocles, Dionysius, and others, of whom I may say that all of them together had
inflicted fewer injuries upon the commonwealth than the defendant
Demosthenes, Against Leptines, section 60 (search)
In the second place, will you not wrong
Archebius and Heraclides, who by putting Byzantium into the hands of Thrasybulus made you masters of the
Hellespont, so that you farmed out
the toll of ten per cent,Levied by the
Byzantines on the value of the cargo of every ship passing through the
Bosporus. and thus being
well furnished with money forced the Lacedaemonians to conclude a peace
favorable to you?The Athenians gained
Byzantium and Chalcedon in 390 B.C. It is strange to find the notorious peace of Antalcidas
mentioned with approval. When subsequently they were banished, you,
Athenians, passed what I think was a very proper decree in favor of men exiled
through devotion to your interests, conferring on them the title of Friends of