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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20. You can also browse the collection for Thermopylae or search for Thermopylae in all documents.
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Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 32 (search)
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 35 (search)
What then were the speeches he made at
that crisis—the speeches that brought everything to ruin? He told you
that you need not be excited because Philip had passed Thermopylae; that, if only you kept
quiet, you would get all you wanted, and would within two or three days learn
that Philip was now the friend of those to whom he came as enemy, and the enemy
of those to whom he came as friend. The bonds of amity, he declared, with his
most impressive eloquence, are fortified not by words but by community of
interest; and it was an interest common to Philip, to the Phocians, and to all
of you alike, to be quit of the unfeeling and offensive behavior of the Thebans.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 149 (search)
How
did he manage it? By hiring Aeschines. Nobody, of course, had any inkling;
nobody was watching— according to your usual custom! Aeschines was
nominated for the deputation to Thermopylae; three or four hands were held up, and he was
declared elected. He repaired to the Council, invested with all the prestige of
Athens, and at once, putting
aside and disregarding everything else, addressed himself to the business for
which he had taken pay. He concocted a plausible speech about the legendary
origin of the consecration of the Cirrhaean territory, and by this narration
induced the commissioners, men unversed in oratory and unsuspicious of
consequences
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 155 (search)
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 184 (search)
therefore be it
resolved by the Council and People of Athens, after offering prayers and sacrifices to the gods
and heroes who guard the city and country of the Athenians, and after taking
into consideration their ancestors' merits, in that they ranked the
preservation of the liberties of Greece above the claims of their own state, that two
hundred ships be launched, and that the Admiral sail into the Straits of
Thermopylae, and that
the General and commander of the cavalry march out with the infantry and
cavalry to Eleusis; also that
ambassadors be sent to the other Greeks, but first of all to the Thebans,
because Philip is nearest to their territory,
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 304 (search)
If in each of the cities of Greece there had been some one man such as I
was in my appointed station in your midst, nay, if Thessaly had possessed one man and Arcadia one man holding the same sentiments that I held, no
Hellenic people beyond or on this side of Thermopylae would have been exposed to their present
distresses:
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 18 (search)
I came forward and reported the whole truth to the Council. I denounced these
men, and told the whole story, point by point, beginning with those earlier
hopes created by the reports of Ctesiphon and Aristodemus, going on to the more recent orations
of Aeschines at the approval of the peace, and showing to what straits they had
reduced the city. There remained the question of the Phocians and Thermopylae, and we must
not—such was my advice—we must not repeat our experience,
and throw them overboard, and so, in reliance upon a succession of idle hopes
and assurances, allow ourselves to fall into the last extremity of disaster. I
convinced the Counc
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 34 (search)
Well, the Council adopted this resolution. When the Assembly met,
Philip was already at Thermopylae. For that is the beginning of their misdeeds; they
had surrendered control to Philip and then,—although the right course
for you was, first to hear the facts, next to decide, and finally to carry out
your decision,—you heard nothing until he was already on the spot, and
it was no easy matter to advise you what to
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 58 (search)
We returned from the oath-taking
embassy on the thirteenth of Scirophorion, when Philip was already at Thermopylae and making promises to the
Phocians which they were not disposed to believe. The proof of that is that
otherwise they would not have resorted to you. Then the Assembly, at which these
men brought the whole business to ruin with their lies and cajolery, was held on
the sixteenth of Scirophorion.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 77 (search)
But when he had reached Thermopylae, and when the Lacedaemonians, detecting the snare,
had withdrawn, he sent Aeschines as his agent in advance for your deception,
lest, when you discovered that he was acting in the interest of the Thebans, he
should be involved once more in delays and fighting and waste of time with the
Phocians resisting him, and you helping them. In this way he hoped to obtain
complete mastery without a struggle. And so it fell out. Aeschines, then, must
not escape punishment for deceiving you, merely because Philip deceived the
Lacedaemonians and the Phocians. That would be unjust indeed.