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§§ 276—296. Here Demosthenes begins by alluding to the attempt of Aeschines to represent him as a skilful sophist and rhetorician, who will impose on the judges by his wily arts. He retorts by showing that his own oratorical power has always been exerted in behalf of Athens, while that of Aeschines has been used to help her enemies or to gratify personal malice. He refers to the testimony of the citizens in choosing him to deliver the eulogy on those who fell at Chaeronea, as a proof of his patriotism. Finally, he declares that the present calamities of Greece have been caused by men of the stamp of Aeschines in various Greek states; and he gives a black list of these traitors who have betrayed their countries to the common enemy.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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