[104]
And that you may not be quite surprised to hear that decrees
made in Athens have so powerful an
effect, I will remind you of a piece of history within the knowledge of all of
you. After the revolt1 of Miltocythes against Cotys, when the war had already lasted a
considerable time, when Ergophilus had been superseded, and Autocles was on the
point of sailing to take command, a decree was proposed here in such terms that
Miltocythes withdrew in alarm, supposing that you were not well disposed towards
him, and Cotys gained possession of the Sacred Mountain and its treasures. Now
observe that later, men of Athens,
although Autocles was put on his trial for having brought Miltocythes to ruin,
the time for indicting the author of the decree was past; and, so far as
Athens was concerned, the whole
business had come to grief.
1 In 361; See Grote, chap. 80.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.