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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20.
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Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 18, section 123
Here is another point, men of Athens. The difference between railing and
accusation I take to be this: accusation implies crimes punishable by law;
railing, such abuse as quarrelsome people vent upon one another according to
their disposition. These law courts, if I am not mistaken, were built by our
ancestors, not that we should convene you here to listen to us taunting one
another with the secret scandal of private life, but that we should here bring
home to the guilty offences against the public weal.
Thermopylae (search for this): speech 19, section 123
They were afraid that an
extraordinary meeting of the Assembly might suddenly be convened, and that then,
on hearing the truth from me, you might adopt some acceptable resolution in
favor of the Phocians, and that so Philip might lose control. One friendly
resolution, one gleam of hope, and the Phocians might have been saved. If you
had not fallen into the trap, it was impossible—yes,
impossible—for Philip to remain at Thermopylae. There was no corn in the
country, as the war had prevented sowing; and the conveyance of corn was
impossible so long as your fleet was there and commanded the sea. The Phocian
cities were numerous, and not easy of capture, unless by protracted siege. Even
if Philip had taken a city a day, there were twenty-two of th
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 18, section 124
Aeschines knows that as well as I do; but he has a keener taste for
scurrility than for accusation. However, even in that respect he deserves to get
as good as he gives. I will come to that presently; meantime I will ask him just
one question. Are we to call you the enemy of Athens, Aeschines, or my enemy? Mine, of course. Yet you let
slip your proper opportunities of bringing me to justice on behalf of the
citizens, if I had done wrong, by audit, by indictment, by any sort of legal
procedure;
Macedonia (Macedonia) (search for this): speech 19, section 124
For all these reasons they left Aeschines at home,
fearing that you might be undeceived and change your policy. Now to decline an
appointment on affidavit with no reason alleged was a strange move and very
suspicious. “What do you mean? Are you declining the embassy? Are you
not going to Macedonia to realize all
those grand benefits which you announced yourself?” However, he had to
remain. What was to be done? He pleaded ill-health; and his brother, taking
Execestus the physician with him, repaired to the council-house, made affidavit
of the illness, and received the appointment himse
Chalcis (Greece) (search for this): speech 19, section 125
But afterwards, when within five or six days the Phocians were
destroyed, when Aeschines' wages stopped as such things do, when Dercylus had
returned from Chalcis and had
informed you, at the assembly held at Peiraeus, of the destruction of the
Phocians, when that news filled you with indignation on their account and alarm
on your own, when you were resolving to bring in your women and children from
the country, to reinstate the frontier fortresses, to fortify the Peiraeus, and
to hold the festival of Heracles within the walls,
Phocis (Greece) (search for this): speech 19, section 126
then at last, at that crisis, when the city was
encompassed with confusion and terror, off marched this wise, clever,
smooth-tongued gentleman, without waiting for Council or Assembly to reappoint
him, on his embassy to the court of the chief malefactor. He forgot that he had
sworn that he was too ill to travel; forgot that another ambassador had been
chosen in his stead, and that the law visits such conduct with death; forgot
that, with the Thebans not only holding all Boeotia but in possession of the territory of Phocis,
Boeotia (Greece) (search for this): speech 19, section 126
then at last, at that crisis, when the city was
encompassed with confusion and terror, off marched this wise, clever,
smooth-tongued gentleman, without waiting for Council or Assembly to reappoint
him, on his embassy to the court of the chief malefactor. He forgot that he had
sworn that he was too ill to travel; forgot that another ambassador had been
chosen in his stead, and that the law visits such conduct with death; forgot
that, with the Thebans not only holding all Boeotia but in possession of the territory of Phocis,
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): speech 19, section 127
it
was a very odd thing for a man, who had solemnly announced that the Thebans had
set a price upon his head, to walk straight into the middle of Thebes and the Theban encampment.
Nevertheless, he was so excited, his appetite for moneymaking and bribe-taking
was so keen, that he put aside and ignored all these obstacles, and off he went.
Macedonia (Macedonia) (search for this): speech 19, section 128
That was a
remarkable proceeding, but far stranger still was his behavior after his arrival
in Macedonia. While you who are here
and all other Athenians regarded the treatment of the Phocians as scandalous and
outrageous, insomuch that you would not send any member of council or any judge
to represent you at the Pythian games, but relinquished that time-honored
delegation, Aeschines attended the service of thanksgiving which the Thebans and
Philip held to celebrate their victory and their political success, was a guest
at the banquet, and took part in the libations and doxologies with which Philip
thanked Heaven for the destruction of the fortresses, the territory, and the
armies of your allies. He even joined Philip in wearing garlands and singing the
Hymn of Praise,
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 20, section 128
You hear the
copy of the inscription, men of Athens, ordering them to be immune, save from religious duties.
Now read the beginning of the law of Leptines.
Law
Good; stop there. After the words "to the
end that the wealthiest citizens may perform the public services," he added "no
one shall be immune save and except, the descendants of Harmodius and
Aristogiton." Why so, if to pay for a religious rite is to perform a public
service? For if that is his meaning, his own drafting will be found to
contradict the inscription.