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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20.
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Coronea (Greece) (search for this): speech 19, section 148
Here is another point for your
consideration, gentlemen of the jury. Who gained the greater advantage in the
operations, the Phocians over the Thebans, or Philip over you? I reply, the
Phocians over the Thebans. They held Orchomenus, and Coronea, and Tilphosaeum; they had kept within the walls the
Theban garrison at Neon; they had slain two hundred and seventy Thebans at
Hedyleum, and a trophy had been set up; they were superior in cavalry, and so an
Iliad of woes encompassed the Thebans.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 18, section 149
How
did he manage it? By hiring Aeschines. Nobody, of course, had any inkling;
nobody was watching— according to your usual custom! Aeschines was
nominated for the deputation to Thermopylae; three or four hands were held up, and he was
declared elected. He repaired to the Council, invested with all the prestige of
Athens, and at once, putting
aside and disregarding everything else, addressed himself to the business for
which he had taken pay. He concocted a plausible speech about the legendary
origin of the consecration of the Cirrhaean territory, and by this narration
induced the commissioners, men unversed in oratory and unsuspicious of
consequences
Thermopylae (search for this): speech 18, section 149
How
did he manage it? By hiring Aeschines. Nobody, of course, had any inkling;
nobody was watching— according to your usual custom! Aeschines was
nominated for the deputation to Thermopylae; three or four hands were held up, and he was
declared elected. He repaired to the Council, invested with all the prestige of
Athens, and at once, putting
aside and disregarding everything else, addressed himself to the business for
which he had taken pay. He concocted a plausible speech about the legendary
origin of the consecration of the Cirrhaean territory, and by this narration
induced the commissioners, men unversed in oratory and unsuspicious of
consequences
Piraeus (Greece) (search for this): speech 20, section 149
Moreover it was
Aristophon who proposed to pay Gelarchus five talents for sums advanced to the
democrats in the PiraeusSee Dem. 20.11.
Gelarchus is not otherwise known. There were, apparently, no witnesses to
his gift.; and he was right. Then, my friend, if you recommended the
repayment of unattested sums on the ground of service done to the people, you
must not advise the revocation of grants for services which the people
themselves attested by inscriptions in the temples, and which are indeed known
to all men. You must not exhibit yourself as at the same time proposing that
debts ought to be paid, and urging that a man should be deprived of what he has
won at the hands of the people.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 13, section 15
The real danger to democracy no one is
bold enough to name; but I will name it. It is in danger when you, men of
Athens, are wrongly led, when in
spite of your numbers you are helpless, unarmed, unorganized and at variance,
when no general or anyone else pays any heed to your resolutions, when no one
cares to tell you the truth or set you right, when no one makes an effort to
remedy this state of things. And that is what always happens now.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 14, section 15
For you will notice, men of Athens, that whenever you have collectively formed some
project, and thereafter each individual has realized that it was his personal
duty to carry it out, nothing has ever escaped your grasp; but whenever you have
formed your project and thereafter have looked to one another to carry it out,
each expecting to do nothing while his neighbor worked, then nothing has
succeeded with you.
Ctesiphon (Iraq) (search for this): speech 18, section 15
but in fact he has deserted the path
of right and justice, he has flinched from the proof of recent guilt, and then,
after a long interval, he makes a hotchpotch of imputation and banter and
scurrility, and stands on a false pretence, denouncing me, but indicting
Ctesiphon. He sets in the forefront
of the controversy his private quarrel with me, in which he has never confronted
me fairly; yet he is avowedly seeking to disfranchise somebody else.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 18, section 150
Hellespont (Turkey) (search for this): speech 19, section 150
When the peace of
Philocrates, which Aeschines supported in a speech, had been concluded, Philip's
ambassadors accepted the oaths, and departed. So far no fatal mischief had been
done. The peace was, indeed, discreditable and unworthy of Athens—but
then we were going to get those wonderful advantages in exchange. I at once
called upon you, and told the envoys, to sail for the Hellespont as speedily as possible, and not to
abandon, or allow Philip to seize and hold, any of the positions there in the
meantime
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 20, section 150
Next, I have
this much to say to Cephisodotus. As an orator, men of Athens, he is inferior to none. Then it
would be far more honorable to use his talents for the chastisement of
evil-doers than for the injury of those who deserve well. If he must make
enemies, I suggest that they should be those who injure the people, not those
who benefit them.