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§§ 160—226. The orator now passes to his own agency in opposing the joint plot of Aeschines and Philip. See introductory note on §§ 126—226. After speaking of the enmity between Athens and Thebes, which men like Aeschines had encouraged (§§ 160— 163), he gives a graphic account of the panic excited at Athens by Philip's seizure of Elatea, and of the manner in which he took advantage of this emergency to bring Athens and Thebes to a better understanding and even to an alliance against the common enemy (§§ 168—226). Into this account he introduces (§§ 189—210) a most eloquent and earnest defence of the whole line of policy in opposition to Philip which Athens had followed chiefly by his advice. He pleads that Athens, with her glorious traditions, could have taken no other course, even if she had seen the fatal defeat at Chaeronea in advance. This is the most eloquent and impassioned passage in the oration; and it is addressed not merely to the court, but to the whole people and to future ages.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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