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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61.
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331 BC (search for this): speech 56, section 7
In accordance
with this agreement, men of the jury, Dionysodorus here and his partner
Parmeniscus, when they had got the money from us, despatched their ship from
Athens to Egypt. Parmeniscus sailed in charge of the
ship; Dionysodorus remained at Athens. All these men, I would have you know, men of the jury,
were underlings and confederates of Cleomenes, the former ruler of Egypt,After
his conquest of Egypt in 331 B.C. Alexander had made Cleomenes collector of
revenues for that province. who from the time he received the
government did no small harm to your state, or rather to the rest of the Greeks
as well, by buying up grain for resale and fixing its price, and in this he had
these men as his confederates.
338 BC (search for this): speech 60, section 18
338 BC (search for this): speech 60, section 19
Of necessity it happens, when a battle takes place,The particular reference is to the battle of
Chaeronea, 338 B.C., where the Greeks were
defeated by Philip of Macedon. that the one side is beaten and the
other victorious; but I should not hesitate to assert that in my judgement the
men who die at the post of duty on either side do not share the defeat but are
both alike victors. For the mastery among the survivors is decided as the deity
disposes, but that which each was in duty bound to contribute to this end, every
man who has kept his post in battle has done. But if, as a mortal being, he
meets his doom, what he has suffered is an incident caused by chance, but in
spirit he remains unconquered by his opponents.Blass notes this sentiment in Dem. 18.208, and
in Isoc. 4.92.
343 BC (search for this): speech 54, section 3
Two years ago I went out to Panactum,Panactum was an Athenian fort on the borders of Boeotia. An expedition to this point in
343 B.C . is mentioned by Demosthenes in Dem. 19.326. However, as we are told by Aristot. Ath. Pol. 42.4, that the
e)/fhboi （young men of military
age）, in the second year of their training, patrolled the country
and spent their spare time in the forts, it may be that no formal military
expedition is meant. In that case the loose discipline is more
understandable. where we had been ordered to do garrison duty. The
sons of the defendant, Conon, encamped
near us, as I would to heaven they had not done; for our original enmity and our
quarrels began in fact just there. How these came about, you shall hear. These
men used always to spend
343 BC (search for this): speech 58, section 28
To prove these facts there is no need of my calling
witnesses before you, for you all know that in the archonship of LyciscusThat is, in 343
B.C. the Thesmothetae were deposed from office by vote of the popular
assembly because of Theocrines. Remembering this, you ought to assume that he is
no different now from what he was then.Not long
after he was removed from office, when his brother died by a violent death,
Theocrines showed himself so utterly heartless toward him that, when he had made
inquiry concerning those who had done the deed, and had learned who they were,
he accepted a bribe, and let the matter drop.That is, he accepted the blood-price instead of bringing the murderers to
justice.
343 BC - 340 BC (search for this): speech 59, section 3
After some time had elapsed
Apollodorus was chosen by lot as a member of the senate; and when he had passed
the scrutiny and had sworn the customary oath, there came upon the city a
warDue to Philip's aggressive actions in
the Chersonese in 343-340 B.C. and a crisis so
grave that, if victors, you would be supreme among the Greek peoples, and would
beyond possibility of dispute have recovered your own possessions and have
crushed Philip in war; but, if your help arrived too late and you abandoned your
allies,That is, especially Byzantium and the states in the
Chersonese and in Thrace. allowing your army to be
disbanded for want of money, you would lose these allies, forfeit the confidence
of the rest of the Greeks, and risk the loss of your other pos
355 BC (search for this): speech 61, section 46
But not to spend our time
rehearsing ancient examples while others are available closer to our own
times,The phrase “closer to our
own times” is defined by the mention of Timotheus, who died in
355 B.C., just after Demosthenes entered
public life. The author, whether the orator or a forger, belongs to the
second half of the fourth century. you will discover that Timotheus
was deemed worthy of the highest repute and numerous honors, not because of his
activities as a younger man, but because of his performances after he had
studied with Isocrates.Timotheus, son of Conon,
was called by Cornelius Nepos the last Athenian general worthy of mention.
Demosthenes regularly spoke of him with admiration. You will discover
also
361 BC (search for this): speech 51, section 8
You ought, men of Athens, to seek a just course, not only in
the light of these considerations, but also in the light of your own previous
actions in the case of others who have acted as these men have done. For, when
you were worsted in the sea-fight against Alexander,Alexander of Pherae had defeated the Athenian fleet at
Peparethus in 361 B.C. you thought that the
trierarchs who had let out their trierarchies were chiefly responsible for what
had happened, and you gave them over for imprisonment, having decided by show of
hands that they had betrayed their ships and deserted their post.
371 BC (search for this): speech 59, section 37
so, when peace was made in
the archonship of Phrasicleides,That is, in
371 B.C. and the battle was fought at
LeuctraLeuctra was a town in Boeotia. In
this battle the Thebans under Epameinondas broke the power of Sparta. The
date was 371 B.C. between the Thebans and
the Lacedaemonians, this man Stephanus, having at the time come to Megara and
371 B.C. between the Thebans and
the Lacedaemonians, this man Stephanus, having at the time come to Megara and
having put up at Neaera's house, as at the house of a courtesan, and having had
intercourse with her, she told him all that had taken place and her brutal
treatment by Phrynion. She gave him besides all that she had brought away from
Phrynion's house, and as she was eager to live at Athens, but was afraid of
Phrynion because she had wronged him and he was bitter against her, and she knew
he
372 BC (search for this): speech 59, section 35
Since, then,
she was treated with wanton outrage by Phrynion, and was not loved as she
expected to be, and since her wishes were not granted by him, she packed up his
household goods and all the clothing and jewelry with which he had adorned her
person, and, taking with her two maid-servants, Thratta and
Coccalinêe, ran off to Megara. This was the period when Asteius was
archon at Athens,That is, in 372 B.C.; Alcisthenes was archon the year following. at
the time you were waging your second war against the Lacedaemonians.