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Demosthenes, On Organization, section 32 (search)
Such, in consequence, is the state of our
public affairs that if anyone read out your resolutions and then went on to
describe your performances, not a soul would believe that the same men were
responsible for the one and for the other. Take for instance the decrees that
you passed against the accursed Megarians,Neither this nor the following allusion can be determined with
certainty. when they appropriated the sacred demesne, that you should
march out and prevent it and forbid it; in favour of the Phliasians, when they
were exiled the other day, that you should help them and not give them up to
their murderers, and should call for volunteers from the Peloponnese.
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 18 (search)
Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans, section 28 (search)
If the
Megalopolitans, though peace is secured for them, still cling to the Theban
alliance, it will of course be obvious to all that they prefer the ambition of
Thebes to the claims of justice;
or if, while the Megalopolitans join our alliance in all sincerity, the
Lacedaemonians refuse to keep the peace, then it will be equally obvious that
the object of their activities is not merely to restore Thespiae, but to subjugate the Peloponnese while the Thebans are engrossed in
the war.
Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander, section 10 (search)
I come to another claim sanctioned by the compact. For
the actual words are, “If any of the parties shall overthrow the
constitution established in the several states at the date when they took the
oaths to observe the peace, they shall be treated as enemies by all the parties
to the peace.” But just reflect, men of Athens, that the Achaeans in the Peloponnese enjoyed democratic government, and
one of their democracies, that of Pellene, has now been overthrown by the Macedonian king, who
has expelled the majority of the citizens, given their property to their slaves,
and set up Chaeron, the wrestler, as their tyra
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 18 (search)
When the Phocian war began—not by my fault, for I was still outside
politics—you were at first disposed to hope that the Phocians would
escape ruin, although you knew that they were in the wrong, and to exult over
any misfortune that might befall the Thebans, with whom you were justly and
reasonably indignant because of the immoderate use they had made of the
advantage they gained at Leuctra. The Peloponnesus was divided. The enemies of the Lacedaemonians
were not strong enough to destroy them; and the aristocrats whom the
Lacedaemonians had put into power had lost control of the several states. In
those states and everywhere else there was indiscriminate strife and confusion.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 79 (search)
In this letter
there is no mention of the name of Demosthenes, nor any charge against me. Why
does he forget my acts, when he blames others? Because he could not mention me
without recalling his own transgressions, on which I fixed my attention, and
which I strove to resist. I began by proposing the embassy to Peloponnesus, when first he tried to get a
footing there; then the embassy to Euboea, when he was tampering with Euboea; then an expedition— not an
embassy—to Oreus, and again to Eretria, when he had set up tyrants in those citi
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 218 (search)
So we were
engaged in thanksgiving, and the Thebans in the deliverance that they owed to
us. The situation was reversed, and a nation that, thanks to the intrigues of
Aeschines and his party, seemed on the verge of suing for aid, was now giving
aid in pursuance of the advice which you accepted from me. But indeed, what sort
of language Philip gave vent to at that time, and how seriously he was
discomposed, you shall learn from letters sent by him to Peloponnesus. Please take and read them, that
the jury may learn the real effect of my perseverance, of my journeys and
hardships, and of that profusion of decrees at which Aeschines was just now
scoffing.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 301 (search)
What course of action
was proper for a patriotic citizen who was trying to serve his country with all
possible prudence and energy and loyalty? Surely it was to protect Attica on the sea-board by Euboea, on the inland frontier by Boeotia, and on the side towards Peloponnesus by our neighbors in that
direction; to make provision for the passage of our corn-supply along friendly
coasts all the way to Peiraeus;
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 83 (search)
Moreover, apart from the discredit and infamy attached
to these transactions, it is easy to show that they have involved the
commonwealth in very serious perils. You all know that the prowess of the
Phocians, and their control of the pass of Thermopylae, gave us security against the Thebans, and ensured
that neither Philip nor the Thebans would invade either the Peloponnesus, or Euboea, or Attica.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 260 (search)
Yet this infatuation, this hankering
after Philip, men of Athens, until
very recently had only destroyed the predominance of the Thessalians and their
national prestige, but now it is already sapping their independence, for some of
their citadels are actually garrisoned by Macedonians. It has invaded Peloponnesus and caused the massacres at
Elis. It infected those unhappy
people with such delirious insanity that, to overmaster one another and to
gratify Philip, they stained their hands with the blood of their own kindred and
fellow-citizens.