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Our mutual hostility has become so acute that, when I
wanted to convey my fleet to the Hellespont, I was compelled to escort it with my army through
the Chersonese, because your settlers
there were at war with us in accordance with the decree of Polycrates,Unknown; apparently the author of the decree by
which the colony was sent out. backed up by your resolutions, and
your general was inciting the Byzantines and publicly announcing that your
orders were to make war on me, if he got the chance. In spite of this
provocation, I kept my hands off the fleets and the territory of your state,
though I was strong enough to seize most, if not all, of these, and I have not
ceased to appeal to you to have the points in dispute between us settled by
arbitration.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 30 (search)
My object in
moving this decree was to serve Athens, not Philip. Nevertheless these excellent envoys took so
little heed of it that they loitered in Macedonia for three whole months, until Philip returned from
Thrace, having subdued the whole
country; though they might have reached the Hellespont in ten or perhaps in three or four days, and rescued
the outposts by receiving the oaths of ratification before Philip captured them.
He dared not have touched them in our presence, or we should not have accepted
his oath, and so he would have missed his peace, instead of gaining both his
objects—peace and the strongholds as well
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 71 (search)
Even now I
will not discuss them. But here was a man annexing Euboea and making it a basis of operations against Attica, attacking Megara, occupying Oreus, demolishing
Porthmus, establishing the tyranny of Philistides at Oreus and of Cleitarchus at
Eretria, subjugating the
Hellespont, besieging Byzantium, destroying some of the Greek
cities, reinstating exiled traitors in others: by these acts was he, or was he
not, committing injustice, breaking treaty, and violating the terms of peace?
Was it, or was it not, right that some man of Grecian race should stand forward
to stop those aggressions?
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 73 (search)
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 77 (search)
Letter[Philip, King of Macedonia, to the Council and People of Athens, greeting.—Your
ambassadors, Cephisophon and Democritus and Polycritus, visited me and
discussed the release of the vessels commanded by Leodamas. Now, speaking
generally, it seems to me that you will be very simple people if you imagine
that I do not know that the vessels were sent ostensibly to convey corn from
the Hellespont to Lemnos, but really to help the
Selymbrians, who are being besieged by me and are not included in the
articles of friendship mutually agreed upon between us.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 88 (search)
I will not further ask what was
your proper course in those circumstances,—the answer is too obvious.
But who sent reinforcements to the Byzantines and delivered them? Who prevented
the estrangement of the Hellespont at
that crisis? You, men of Athens; and
when I say you, I mean the whole city. Who advised the city, moved the
resolutions, took action, devoted himself wholeheartedly and without stint to
that business
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 93 (search)
Thus my
considered policy was not only successful in delivering the Chersonese and Byzantium, in preventing the subjugation
of the Hellespont to Philip, and in
bringing distinction to the city, but it exhibited to mankind the noble spirit
of Athens and the depravity of
Philip. For he, the ally of the Byzantines, was besieging them in the sight of
all men: could anything be more discreditable and outrageous?
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 230 (search)
that, instead of the seat of war being in Attica, it was seven hundred furlongs away on
the far side of Boeotia; that, instead
of privateers from Euboea harrying us,
Attica was at peace on the
sea-frontier throughout the war; and that, instead of Philip taking Byzantium and holding the Hellespont, the Byzantines fought on our side
against him.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 241 (search)
Would they not have told you that we had made Philip
a present of our allies? That they had been driven away when they wanted to join
us? That through the Byzantines he had gained the mastery of the Hellespont, and control of the corn-supply of
all Greece? That by means of the
Thebans Attica had become the scene of a distressing war with her own neighbors?
That the sea had become useless for ships because of privateers with Euboea for their base? Would they not have
made all those complaints, and plenty more?
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 150 (search)
When the peace of
Philocrates, which Aeschines supported in a speech, had been concluded, Philip's
ambassadors accepted the oaths, and departed. So far no fatal mischief had been
done. The peace was, indeed, discreditable and unworthy of Athens—but
then we were going to get those wonderful advantages in exchange. I at once
called upon you, and told the envoys, to sail for the Hellespont as speedily as possible, and not to
abandon, or allow Philip to seize and hold, any of the positions there in the
meantime