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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 1-10.
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Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 1, section 1
You would, I
expect, men of Athens, accept it as
the equivalent of a large amount of money, if it could be made clear to you what
will prove our best policy in the matters now under discussion. This then being
so, you are bound to give an eager hearing to all who offer advice. For not only
if someone comes forward with a well-considered plan, could you hear and accept
it, but also I count it part of your good fortune that more than one speaker may
be inspired with suitable suggestions on the spur of the moment, so that out of
the multitude of proposals the choice of the best should not be difficult.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 2, section 1
On many
occasions, men of Athens, one may, I
think, recognize the manifest favor of heaven towards our city, and not least at
the present crisis. That Philip has found men willing to fight him, situated on
his frontiers and possessed of considerable power, above all so determined that
they regard any accommodation with him as both delusive and fatal to their own
country—this has all the appearance of a super-human, a divine
beneficence
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 3, section 1
Very different,
men of Athens, are the thoughts
suggested to me by the contemplation of public affairs and by the speeches to
which I listen. I observe that the speeches are all about punishing Philip,
while our affairs have reached a stage at which it must be our first concern to
avoid disaster ourselves. Hence these speakers seem to me to make precisely the
mistake of submitting to you the wrong subject for deliberation.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 4, section 1
If the question
before us were a new one, men of Athens, I should have waited until most of the regular speakers
had delivered their opinions, and if satisfied with any of their proposals, I
should have remained silent, but if not satisfied, I should then have tried to
express my own views. Since, however, it is our fortune to be still debating a
point on which they have often spoken before, I can safely claim your indulgence
if I am the first to rise and address you. For if in the past their advice had
been sound, there would be no need for deliberation today.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 5, section 1
I perceive, men
of Athens, that the present outlook
gives rise to much vexation and perplexity, because not only have we suffered
serious losses, which cannot be mended by fine speeches, but there is also
complete divergence of opinion about the preservation of what is left of our
empire, one favoring this policy, another that.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 6, section 1
Whenever, men of
Athens, we are discussing
Philip's intrigues and his violations of the peace, I observe that all the
speeches on our side are manifestly inspired by justice and generosity, and
those who denounce Philip are all felt to be saying exactly the right thing; but
of the much needed action, which alone would make the speeches worth hearing,
little or nothing ensues.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 7, section 1
Men of
Athens, the charges that Philip
brings against the speakers who here uphold your claims shall never deter us
from offering our advice on what concerns your interests; for it would be
monstrous if the freedom of utterance which is the privilege of this platform
should be stifled by dispatches from him. But for myself, men of Athens, I wish first to touch upon the
diffho here uphold your claims shall never deter us
from offering our advice on what concerns your interests; for it would be
monstrous if the freedom of utterance which is the privilege of this platform
should be stifled by dispatches from him. But for myself, men of Athens, I wish first to touch upon the
different points of his letter, and then to add my comments on the speeches of
his ambassadors.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 8, section 1
It should be the
duty of all speakers, men of Athens,
to give no expression to their hatred or their partiality, but to put forward
just what each thinks the best counsel, especially when you are debating a
question of urgent public importance. But since there are speakers who are
impelled to address you, either as partisans or from some other motive, whatever
it may be, you citizens who form the majority ought to dismiss all else from
your minds, and vote and act in such a way as you think will best serve our
city.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 9, section 1
Many speeches
are delivered, men of Athens, at
almost every meeting of the Assembly, about the wrongs that Philip has been
committing, ever since the conclusion of peace, not only against you but also
against the other states, and all the speakers would, I am sure, admit in
theory, though they do not put it in practice, that the object both of our words
and deeds must be to check and chastise his arrogance; yet I perceive that all
our interests have been so completely betrayed and sacrificed, that—I
am afraid it is an ominous thing to say, but yet the truth—even if all
who address you had wanted to propose, and all of you had wanted to pass,
measures that were bound to bring our affairs into the worst possible plight, I
do not think they could have been in a worse condi
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 10, section 1
The matters that
you are debating, men of Athens, are
to my mind so important and even vital to the State, that I will endeavour to
offer you what I consider profitable advice on the subject. While the faults
that have produced this unhappy state of things are neither few nor recently
accumulated, there is nothing, men of Athens, more vexing at the present time than the way in which
things are neither few nor recently
accumulated, there is nothing, men of Athens, more vexing at the present time than the way in which
you detach your thoughts from affairs, and display an interest only so long as
you sit here listening, or when some fresh item of news arrives; after that,
each man goes home, and not only pays no attention to public business, but does
not even recall it to mind.