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Demosthenes, Philippic 1, section 27 (search)
Demosthenes, Philippic 1, section 32 (search)
Bearing this in mind, we must rely not on occasional
levies, or we shall be too late for everything, but on a regular standing army.
You have the advantage of winter bases for your troops in Lemnos, Thasos, Sciathos, and the neighboring islands, where are to be
found harbors, provisions, and everything that an army needs; and during that
season of the year when it is easy to stand close in to shore and the winds are
steady, your force will easily lie off his coast and at the mouth of his
seaports.
Demosthenes, Philippic 1, section 34 (search)
More
than that, Athenians, you will be depriving Philip of his principal source of
revenue. And what is that? For the war against you he makes your allies pay by
raiding their sea-borne commerce. Is there any further advantage? Yes, you will
be out of reach of injury yourselves. Your past experience will not be repeated,
when he threw a force into Lemnos and
Imbros and carried your citizens away captive, when he seized the shipping at
Geraestus and levied untold sums, or, to crown all, when he landed at Marathon
and bore away from our land the sacred trireme,The “Paralus,” conveying the qewri/aor state-embassy to Delos in May, touched at Marathon to offer sacrifice in the
*dh/lion or sanctuary of Apollo. Readers
of the Phaedo will remember why the execution of Socrates was
Demosthenes, On the Halonnesus, section 4 (search)
For, that plea once granted, if some
pirates seize a strip of Attic territory, or a part of Lemnos or Imbros or Scyros, and if someone
dislodges these pirates, what is to prevent this place, where the pirates are
established and which is really ours, from becoming the property of those who
chastised them?