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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 29 | 29 | Browse | Search |
| Polybius, Histories | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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Demades, On the Twelve Years, section 9 (search)
I have, to bear me out, the burial of a thousand
AtheniansIt is said that after Chaeronea in 338
B.C. Philip was insulting his prisoners, until Demades, by his frank speech,
won him over to a better attitude towards Athens. Cf. Dio. Sic.
16.87. performed by the hands of our adversaries, hands which
I won over from enmity to friendship towards the dead. Then, on coming to the
fore in public life, I proposed the peace. I admit it. I proposed honors to
Philip. I do not deny it. By making these proposals I gained for you two
thousand captives free of ransom, a thousand Athenian dead, for whom no herald
had to ask, and Oropus without an embassy.