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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had withdrawn, he sent Aeschines as his agent in advance for your deception,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.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 78 (search)
If as an offset to the
Phocians and Thermopylae and
all our other losses he tells you that the city still retains the Chersonese, I adjure you not to accept that
excuse. In addition to the wrongs he has done you by his embassy, you must not
suffer him by his defence also to fasten upon the city the reproach that, while
stealthily securing some of your own possessions, you made sacrifice of the
safety of your allies. You did no such thing. Peace was concluded; the
Chersonese was secure; and then for
the four ensuing months the Phocians were not imperilled, until you were
deceived, and the Phocians destroyed, by this man's mendacity.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 79 (search)
Moreover, you will find that the Chersonese is in greater danger now than then.
When would it have been easier to punish Philip for wrongful aggression upon
that country—before he forestalled us at Thermopylae, or today? Surely far
easier then! What, then, does it profit us that we still retain the Chersonese, if the man, who would have invaded
it if he could, is freed from the apprehensions and perils that deterred him?
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 83 (search)
Moreover, apart from the discredit and infamy attached
to these transactions, it is easy to show that they have involved the
commonwealth in very serious perils. You all know that the prowess of the
Phocians, and their control of the pass of Thermopylae, gave us security against the Thebans, and ensured
that neither Philip nor the Thebans would invade either the Peloponnesus, or Euboea, or Attica.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 84 (search)
But, overborne by the impostures and
falsehoods of these men, you have flung away the security of position and
circumstances which the city enjoyed. That security was fortified by arms and an
unbroken front, by strongholds of our allies and a broad territory; and you have
acquiesced in its devastation. Your former expedition to Thermopylae, made at a cost of more
than two hundred talents, if you include the private expenses of the troops, has
gone to waste; and so have all your hopes respecting the Thebans.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 96 (search)
Speaking of the peace, I fear, men of Athens, I sadly fear that we are unconsciously enjoying it like
men who borrow money at a high rate of interest. For these men have betrayed the
security and guarantee of the peace—the Phocians and Thermopylae. Anyhow, we have not to
thank the defendant for peace. What I am going to say is strange, but quite
true. If any man is really pleased with the peace, let him be grateful to those
generals whom everyone denounces. For, had they fought to your satisfaction, you
would have scorned the very name of peace