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Corinth (Greece) (search for this): letter 5
To Heracleodorus Schaefer judges the evidence against the genuineness of these last two letters to be decisive. If this one be genuine, it must be assumed that Heracleodorus is a citizen of some neighboring city, such as Corinth, because Demosthenes would have no need to write to a fellow-citizen of Athens. Demosthenes sends his good wishes to Heracleodorus. I am at a loss to know whether I ought to believe or disbelieve the news that Menecrates brings me. For he said that information had been laid against Epitimus, that AratusThe persons here named are citizens of some neighboring city and otherwise unknown. had taken him to prison and that you were supporting the prosecution and were the most uncompromising of all toward him. I do beseech you in the name of Zeus the god of friendship and by all the gods not to get me involved in any disagreeable and embarrassing predic
Athens (Greece) (search for this): letter 5
To Heracleodorus Schaefer judges the evidence against the genuineness of these last two letters to be decisive. If this one be genuine, it must be assumed that Heracleodorus is a citizen of some neighboring city, such as Corinth, because Demosthenes would have no need to write to a fellow-citizen of Athens. Demosthenes sends his good wishes to Heracleodorus. I am at a loss to know whether I ought to believe or disbelieve the news that Menecrates brings me. For he said that information had been laid against Epitimus, that AratusThe persons here named are citizens of some neighboring city and otherwise unknown. had taken him to prison and that you were supporting the prosecution and were the most uncompromising of all toward him. I do beseech you in the name of Zeus the god of friendship and by all the gods not to get me involved in any disagreeable and embarrassing predica
355 BC (search for this): letter 5
would also be to me one of the most grievous disappointments if, after having started out to feel friendly toward you, I should be compelled to take the opposite decision instead, and if I assume that I have been slighted and deceived, even if I shall deny it, believe me, it will be so. If you have looked down upon us because we are not yet among the foremost men,If the letter is genuine, this evidence of date would point approximately to 355 B.C. The First Philippic was delivered in 351. reflect that you too were once a young man of the same age as we are now, and that you have reached your present position through speech and action in public life. Such success may attend me also. For deliberative oratory I have mastered alreadyDeinarchus in Din. 1.35 may be making a taunting reference to this boast. and, with Fortune lending a hand, the practical experience also may follow.