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Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 123 (search)
They were afraid that an
extraordinary meeting of the Assembly might suddenly be convened, and that then,
on hearing the truth from me, you might adopt some acceptable resolution in
favor of the Phocians, and that so Philip might lose control. One friendly
resolution, one gleam of hope, and the Phocians might have been saved. If you
had not fallen into the trap, it was impossible—yes,
impossible—for Philip to remain at Thermopylae. There was no corn in the
country, as the war had prevented sowing; and the conveyance of corn was
impossible so long as your fleet was there and commanded the sea. The Phocian
cities were numerous, and not easy of capture, unless by protracted siege. Even
if Philip had taken a city a day, there were twenty-two of th
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 152 (search)
or, if he refused, we could promptly
report his refusal. In that case you, observing his grasping spirit and perfidy
in those distant and comparatively unimportant places, would no longer be
negligent of the more important concerns that lay nearer home—I mean
the Phocians and Thermopylae.
If he had not seized the positions, and if there had been no deception of you,
all your interests were safe enough, and you would get fair treatment from him
without compulsion
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 153 (search)
This was a reasonable
expectation; for so long as the Phocians were safe, as they were at the time,
and in possession of Thermopylae, there was no menace which Philip could have
brandished in your face to make you disregard any of your just claims. He could
not reach Attica either by a march
across country or by getting command of the seas. If he refused justice, you
could forthwith close his ports, stop his supply of money, and otherwise reduce
him to a state of blockade; and so he, and not you, would be wholly dependent on
the contingent benefits of the peace.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 180 (search)
Yet no man could point out two
places in the whole world of more importance to the commonwealth than Thermopylae by land and the Hellespont by sea; and both of them these men
have infamously sold and delivered into the hands of Philip. What an enormous
offence, apart from all the rest, is the surrender of Thrace and the Thracian outposts, I could show
by a thousand reasons; and it would be easy to point to many men who for such
betrayals have been sentenced to death or mulcted in large sums of money in this
court,—Ergophilus, Cephisodotus, Timomachus, and, in old times,
Ergocles, Dionysius, and others, of whom I may say that all of them together had
inflicted fewer injuries upon the commonwealth than the defendant
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 204 (search)
He cannot claim as
advantages the destruction of the Phocians, or Philip's occupation of Thermopylae, or the aggrandizement of
Thebes, or the invasion of
Euboea, or the designs against
Megara, or the unratified peace;
for he reported himself that exactly the opposite was going to happen and would
be to your advantage. Neither can he convince you, against the evidence of your
own eyes and your own knowledge, that these disasters are fabulous.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 318 (search)
For if he should
accept the Phocians as allies, and with your help take the oath of friendship to
them, he must at once violate the oaths he had already sworn to the Thessalians
and the Thebans, with the latter of whom he had covenanted to help them in the
subjugation of Boeotia, and with the
former to restore their rights at the Amphictyonic Council. If, on the other
hand, he was loth to accept them—and in fact the prospect did not
please him—he expected that you would send troops to Thermopylae to stop his passage, as
indeed you would have done if you had not been outwitted. In that event, he
calculated that he would be unable to get throu
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 319 (search)
He did not need any information from others to reach that
conclusion. He was himself a sufficient witness, for, after his first defeat of
the Phocians and the overthrow of their leader and commander Onomarchus,
although no one in the whole world, Greek or barbarian, sent aid to them save
you alone, so far from getting through Thermopylae, or accomplishing any of the purposes of the
passage, he had been unable even to approach the pass.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 320 (search)
I take it he was perfectly well aware that now, with Thessaly at variance with him—the
Pheraeans, for example, refusing to join his following—with the
Thebans getting the worst of the war, defeated in an engagement, and a trophy
erected at their expense, he would be unable to force the passage if you sent
troops to Thermopylae, and that
he could not even make the attempt without serious loss unless he should also
resort to some trickery. “How, then,” he thought,
“shall I escape open falsehood, and attain all my objects without
incurring the charge of perjury? Only if I can find Athenians to hood-wink the
Athenian people, for then I shall have no share in the ensuing
d
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 322 (search)
So on the strength of these expectations and
inducements he obtained his peace, with the Phocians excluded; but it was still
necessary to stop the reinforcement of Thermopylae, for which fifty war-galleys were lying at anchor
to enable you to check Philip's advance.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 334 (search)
These are my accusations. Do
not forget them. For a just and equitable peace I would be grateful; I would
have commended and advised you to decorate negotiators who had not first sold
themselves and then deceived you with falsehoods. Granted that you were wronged
by any commander,—he is not concerned in the present inquiry. Did any
commander bring Halus to destruction? or the Phocians? or Doriscus? or
Cersobleptes? or the Sacred Mount? or Thermopylae? Was it a commander who gave Philip an open road to
Attica through the territory of
friends and allies? Who has made Coronea and Orchomenus
and Euboea alien ground for us? Who
nearly did the same with Megara only
yesterday? Who has made the Thebans strong