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Demosthenes, Reply to Philip, section 1 (search)
It must now be
clear to all of you, Athenians, that Philip never concluded a peace with you,
but only postponed the war; for ever since he handed HalusA town in the south of Thessaly on the Pagasaean Gulf; not to be confused with
Halonnesus. over to the Pharsalians, settled the Phocian question,
and subdued the whole of Thrace,
coining false excuses and inventing hollow pretexts, he has been all the time
practically at war with Athens,
though it is only now that he confesses it openly in the letter which he has
sent.
Furthermore, about the same date,
DiopithesSee Dem.
8. Crobyle is not mentioned elsewhere; Tiristasis was in the
Chersonese. attacked
Crobyle and Tiristasis and enslaved the inhabitants, laying waste the adjacent
parts of Thrace. But his crowning act
of lawlessness was the arrest of Amphilochus, the ambassador sent to negotiate
for the captives; he subjected him to the severest torture and wrung from him a
ransom of nine talents. And this he did with the approval of your Assembly.
But there is more to
come. In your decrees you order me in so many words to leave Thrace to the rule of TeresNot otherwise known. and Cersobleptes,
because they are Athenians. But I am not aware that these two had any share with
you in the terms of peace, or that their names were included in the inscription
set up, or that they are really Athenians. On the contrary, I know that Teres
fought with me against you, and that Cersobleptes was quite ready in private to
take the oath of allegiance to my ambassadors, but was prevented by your
generals, who denounced him as an enemy of the Athenians.
Yet consider which is the more
honorable—to settle the dispute by arms or by arguments, to be
yourselves the umpires or to win the verdict from others. Also reflect how
unreasonable it is that Athenians should force Thasians and MaronitesMaronea and Stryme were neighboring towns on the coast of Thrace, eastward from the island of
Thasos. Maronea laid claim to
Stryme, which was a colony
of Thasos. to submit to
arbitration about Stryme, but should
not themselves in this way settle with me the points on which we are at
variance, especially when you realize that, if you lose the verdict, you will
sacrifice nothing, and if you win it, you will gain territory which is now in my
possession
Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander, section 23 (search)
But
they are in luck, because they can make the most of your supineness, which
prefers to take no advantage even of your due rights.The greatest humiliation, however, that we have suffered is that all
the other Greeks and barbarians dread your enmity, but these upstartsLiterally nouveaux riches, another word condemned
by Libanius as un-Demosthenic. alone can make you despise yourselves,
sometimes by persuasion, sometimes by force, as if Abdera or Maronea,Two cities of Thrace.
The former was the Greek Gotham. and not Athens, were the scene of their political
activities.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 27 (search)
Foreseeing that result, and appreciating
its importance, I moved that the embassy should repair to the place where they
would find Philip and swear him in without delay, in order that the oath might
be taken while your allies the Thracians were still holding the places about
which Aeschines was so sarcastic—Serrium, Myrtenum, and
Ergisce—and that Philip might not get control of Thrace by seizing the positions of advantage
and so providing himself amply with men and money for the furtherance of his
ulterior desig
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 30 (search)
My object in
moving this decree was to serve Athens, not Philip. Nevertheless these excellent envoys took so
little heed of it that they loitered in Macedonia for three whole months, until Philip returned from
Thrace, having subdued the whole
country; though they might have reached the Hellespont in ten or perhaps in three or four days, and rescued
the outposts by receiving the oaths of ratification before Philip captured them.
He dared not have touched them in our presence, or we should not have accepted
his oath, and so he would have missed his peace, instead of gaining both his
objects—peace and the strongholds as well
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 32 (search)
When Philip had sworn to the peace, having first
secured Thrace because of their
disobedience to my decree, he bribed them to postpone our departure from
Macedonia until he had made ready
for his expedition against the Phocians. He was afraid that, if we reported that
he intended and was already preparing to march, you would turn out and sail
round with your fleet to Thermopylae, and block the passage, as you did before; and his
object was that you should not receive our report until he had reached this side
of Thermopylae and you were
powerless.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 87 (search)
When Philip was driven out of Euboea by your arms, and
also,—though these men choke themselves with their
denials,—by my policy and my decrees, he cast about for a second plan
of attack against Athens; and
observing that we consume more imported corn than any other nation, he proposed
to get control of the carrying trade in corn. He advanced towards Thrace, and the first thing he did was to
claim the help of the Byzantines as his allies in the war against you. When they
refused, declaring with entire truth that the terms of alliance included no such
obligation, he set up a stockade against their city, planted artillery, and
began a sie