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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschines, Speeches | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Again, your general,
Callias,Of Chalcis in Euboea.
Originally an ally of Philip, he changed sides and helped Phocion's
expedition in 341, which cleared Oreus and Eretria of tyrants. The captured cities, as allies of
Philip, were included in the Peace of Philocrates
(346). captured the cities on the Pagasaean Gulf,
every one of them, though they were protected by treaty with you and were in
alliance with me all merchants sailing to Macedonia he regarded as enemies and sold them into slavery.
And for this you passed him a vote of thanks! So I am at a loss to say what
difference it will make if you admit that you are at war with me, for when we
were openly at variance, then too you used to send out privateers, enslave
merchants trading with us, help my
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 71 (search)
Even now I
will not discuss them. But here was a man annexing Euboea and making it a basis of operations against Attica, attacking Megara, occupying Oreus, demolishing
Porthmus, establishing the tyranny of Philistides at Oreus and of Cleitarchus at
Eretria, subjugating the
Hellespont, besieging Byzantium, destroying some of the Greek
cities, reinstating exiled traitors in others: by these acts was he, or was he
not, committing injustice, breaking treaty, and violating the terms of peace?
Was it, or was it not, right that some man of Grecian race should stand forward
to stop those aggressions?
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 79 (search)
In this letter
there is no mention of the name of Demosthenes, nor any charge against me. Why
does he forget my acts, when he blames others? Because he could not mention me
without recalling his own transgressions, on which I fixed my attention, and
which I strove to resist. I began by proposing the embassy to Peloponnesus, when first he tried to get a
footing there; then the embassy to Euboea, when he was tampering with Euboea; then an expedition— not an
embassy—to Oreus, and again to Eretria, when he had set up tyrants in those citi
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 81 (search)
Now that Philistides would have paid a
large sum for possession of Oreus, and Cleitarchus for possession of Eretria, and Philip himself to get those
advantages of position against you, or to escape conviction in other matters or
any inquiry into his wrongdoing in every quarter, is well known to
all—and to no one better than to you, Aeschines