[6]
For my own part, Athenians, I
too should be inclined to regard Philip with mingled fear and admiration, if I
saw that his success had crowned a career of integrity. But when I consider him
attentively, I find that at the outset, when the Olynthians were anxious to
consult you, but certain persons were for excluding them from our Assembly, he
won our simple hearts by promising to hand over Amphipolis to us and by negotiating
that secret treaty1 once
so much talked about.
1 The proposed surrender of Pydna in exchange for Amphipolis.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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