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Demosthenes, Philippic 3, section 16 (search)
Demosthenes, Philippic 3, section 36 (search)
What
then is the cause of this? For not without reason, not without just cause, the
Greeks of old were as eager for freedom as their descendants today are for
slavery. There was something, men of Athens, something which animated the mass of the Greeks but
which is lacking now, something which triumphed over the wealth of Persia, which upheld the liberties of
Hellas, which never lost a single
battle by sea or land, something the decay of which has ruined everything and
brought our affairs to a state of chaos. And what was that?
Demosthenes, Philippic 3, section 47 (search)
Now there is a
foolish argument advanced by those who want to reassure the citizens. Philip,
they say, after all is not yet what the Lacedaemonians were; they were masters
of every sea and land; they enjoyed the alliance of the king of Persia; nothing could stand against them: and
yet our city defended itself even against them and was not overwhelmed. But for
my own part, while practically all the arts have made a great advance and we are
living today in a very different world from the old one, I consider that nothing
has been more revolutionized and improved than the art of war.
Demosthenes, Philippic 4, section 31 (search)
Demosthenes, Philippic 4, section 32 (search)
Demosthenes, Philippic 4, section 51 (search)
You will understand it if you look at it in this way. When have the
affairs of Greece been in the greatest
confusion? For no other occasion than the present could possibly be named by
anyone. All during the past Greece was
divided into two camps, the Lacedaemonians' and ours, and of the other Greeks
some took their orders from us, others from them. The king of Persia, in himself, was equally distrusted by
all, but by taking up the cause of the losing side in the struggle, he retained
their confidence until he could put them on an equality with the others; but
thereafter he was no less hated by those he had saved than by those who had been
his enemies from the beginning.
Demosthenes, Reply to Philip, section 6 (search)
but they will prompt the king of Persia to become our paymaster and he is richer than all the
rest together, and his power to interfere in Greece is such that in our former wars with Sparta, whichever side he joined, he
ensured their victory, and so, if he sides with us now, he will easily crush the
power of Philip.
Not content
with this, you have shown your contempt for right and your hostility to me by
actually sending an embassy to urge the king of Persia to declare war on me. This is the most amazing exploit
of all; for, before the king reduced Egypt and Phoenicia,These two provinces,
together with Cyprus, revolted in
346 and were recovered by Artaxerxes Ochus. Greek mercenaries formed the
backbone of the armies on both sides. See Grote, chap. 90. Nothing is known
of any such Athenian decree. you passed a decree calling on me to
make common cause with the rest of the Greeks against him, in case he attempted
to interfere with us;
Demosthenes, On the Navy, section 12 (search)
Moreover you are now calling on the Greeks to join
you; but if you refuse to do their bidding—and your relations with
some of them are not cordial—how can you expect any of them to answer
your call? “Because,” you say, “we shall warn them
that the King has designs on them.” But seriously, do you imagine that
they cannot detect that for themselves? I am sure they can. But as yet their
fear of Persia is subordinate to their
feuds with you and, in some cases, with one another. Therefore your ambassadors
will only go round repeating their heroics.The
ambassadors are compared to rhapsodists, the wandering professional reciters
of epic poetry, whose art was falling into contempt in an age of wider
education.
Demosthenes, On the Liberty of the Rhodians, section 5 (search)
I am surprised to see
the same men urging the city, in the interests of the Egyptians, to oppose the
King of Persia, but dreading him where
the Rhodian democracy is concerned. Yet everyone knows that the Rhodians are
Greeks, while Egypt is a division of
the Persian Empire.