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You have heard, Athenians, both thefe Decrees, by which
Demonfthenes is plainly convicted of having aflcrted, that the
AmbalTadors, although not yet returned from their Embafly,
were prefent at your AfTembly, and of having rendered ineffec-
tual the Refolution of your Confederates, although you were
willing to have complied with them. For they had exprellly
declared, you fhould wait for the Return of the Embaffy you
fent to the States of Greece, but Demofthenes moft opprobri-
oufly and precipitately changed your Determinations, and not
in Words alone oppofed your waiting, but in very Fa6t, and
by his Decree, when he ordered you to enter immediately
upon your Deliberations.
But he affirmed, that in the firft Day's Aflembly, when
Philocrates had harangued the People, I rofe after him, and
blamed the Peace he had propofed, calling it difhonourable,
and unworthy of the Republic: that the Day following I fup-
ported Philocrates, and fuccefsfully carried the Affembly into
my Opinion: that I perfuaded you to pay no Attention to
thofe, who talked to you of the Battles and Trophies of your
Anceftors, nor ever to fend Succours to any of the Grecian
States in their Difl:refs. (i6) That this Accufation is not only
falfe, but impoffible to be true, Demofthenes himfelf fhall give
me one proof in Evidence againfl: himfelf; a fecond the whole
People of Athens, and you yourfelves, if you recoiled ; a third,
the
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? 1. 82 ORATION OF
the Abfurdity of the Charge itfelf; a fourth, Amyntor, a
Man of Charadler, of unexceptionable Credit, and confiderable
Authority in the Commonwealth, to whom Demofthenes
fliewed a Decree, not in Oppofition to that propofed by Philo-
crates, but the very fame, and with whom he confulted,
whether he fliould give it to the Secretary, to be laid before
the Ailembly. Read me the Decree, wherein he pofitiveiy di-
rects, that there fliould be a general Liberty of debating the
firft Day, but that the proper Officers fliould next Day collect
the Votes, and that no fpeaking fhould be allowed. Yet he
aflertSj that at this very Time I fpoke in Defence of Philocrates.
The Decree of Demosthenes.
Decrees, indeed, remain as they were firfl: written, but the
Speeches of Calumniators are changed occafionally from Day to
Day. My Accufer makes me fpeak twice to the People;
Truth and the Decree, but once. For if we were not per-
mitted to fpeak in the fecond Day's Affembly; if forbidden by
the Magiftrates, there was certainly no poffibility of fuch O-
rations. But with what Intention, if I determined to fupport
Philocrates, did I accufe him the firfl: Day, and after the In-
tervention of only one Night, undertake his Defence before
the very fame Audience? Did I propofe to purchafe Honour
to myfelf, or obtain fome Advantage for him. ? Neither of
thefe was poflible ; but very poflible to gain your univerfal De-
teftation, and not fucceed in any other Inftance. Now fum-
mon
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mon Amyntor, and read his Teftimony. Yet I would previoufly
mention, in what Manner it is written. ** Amyntor bears
" Witnefs to iEfchines, that when the People confulted upon
" entering into an Alliance with Philip, according to the
" Decree of Demofthenes, on the fecond of the Aflembly-
" Days; when all public fpeaking was forbidden, and the
** Suffrages only concerning the Peace and Alliance were to be
t* collefted, in this very Aflembly, Demofthenes fitting by him
" fhewed him a Decree, on which the Name of Demofthenes
" was infcribed, and afked his Advice whether he fliould give.
"? it to the Secretary, to be laid before the People by the proper
" Officers. In this Decree were inferted the Conditions, upon
*' which a Peace and Alliance fhould be concluded, the very
" fame that Philocrates had propofed. " Summon Amyntor
and take Witneftes of your Citation if he fhould refufe to
appear. .
The Testimony of Amy. ntor.
You have heard, Athenians, this Teftimony. Now con-
fider, whether Demofthenes appears to have accufed me, or,,
under my Name, to have accufed himfelf ,
But while he condemns my Oration,, and mifreprefents every-
thing I faid, I fhall neither avoid, nor deny whatever I have
aflerted. Nor am I afliamed, let me rather boaft of the Advice
I have given. Let me however defire you to recoiled: the Cir-
cumftances;
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cumftances of the Times, in which you held thefe Councils.
We engaged in the War at firft for the recovery of Amphipolis.
It happened that our General loft feventy-tive Cities, of which
Timotheus had once taken Pofleffion, and reduced under your
Jurifdi6lion (for I am determined to fpeak without Referve
and with Freedom, that either by fpeaking Truth I may be
acquitted, or, if you judge otherwife, be treated with your
utmoft Difplcafure; nor fhall I refufe my Punifhment) he took
out of your Arfenal an hundred and fifty Gallies, and brought
home forty eight. Thefe Fa6ls the Accufers of Chares perpe-
tually prove in all their Profecutions. Befides, he lavifhed
away fifteen hundred Talents, not upon his own Athenian Sol-
diers, but upon the Infolence of the Commanders of his merce-
nary Troops, and on a Number of Vagabonds colledied through
all Greece, befides the Wretches, who attend for Hire on our
Tribunals and Afiemblies. (17) Thefe Commanders annually
raifed fixty Talents Contribution upon the miferable Iflanders,
and plundered the Grecian Merchants on the open Seas, while
inftead of her former Authority, and the Sovereignty of Greece,
the Republic was ftigmatized with a Charadler befitting Myon-
nefus, and its Pyrates. But when Philip had marched out of
Macedonia, the Conteft between us was no longer for Amphi-
polis, but for Lemnos, Imbros and Scyros, our proper Domini-
ons. Our Citizens abandoned Cherfonefus, confefi^edly belong-
ing
(17) Our Commentators acknowledge of the Text are loft. Tbe Tranflator
t'he DiPnculty of this Paffige, or rather hath endeavoured to preferve the general
think it imperfedl, and that fome Words Senfe of the Context.
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ing to Athens. You were compelled to fummoii with Terrour
and Confufion feveral extraordinary Aflemblies. In fuch an
uncertain, dangerous Situation were your Affairs, that Ce-
phifophon, a Friend and Intimate of Chares, was obliged to
prefer a Decree, that Antiochus, who commanded fome light
Pinnaces, fhould fail with the utmoft Expedition, and find
the General, to whom you had intrufted the Command of
your Forces, and tell him, wherever he fhould happen to meet
him, " the People of Athens are aftonifhed, that Philip is
" marching to invade Cherfonefus, the acknowledged Territo-
** ries of the Athenians, while they neither know where their
** General is, nor the Forces under his Command. " (18) To
confirm the Truth of what I have afferted, hear the Decree,
recoiled the Events of that War, and then demand an Account
of the Peace from your Generals, not from your Ambafi^dors.
The Decree.
Such was the Situation of the Republic when we debated
on the Peace. But thefe Orators, entering into a regular Con-
fpiracy together, whenever they rofe to fpeak, never attempted
to mention the Safety of the Commonwealth, but exhorted you
to turn your Eyes towards the Portico of the Citadel, (19) and
to recall to your Remembrance the Sea-fight againft the Perfians
at Salamis, with the Sepulchres and Trophies of your Anceftors.
Vol. II. B b I too
(i8) The ReaJer may find fome other (19) Where all the glorious Actions
Circum (lances of this General's Story in of their Anceftors were painted,
the firft Volume, Page 138.
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I too delired you to recoiled: all thefe Circumftances, and to
emulate the Wifdom of your. Anceftors, but to guard againft
their Errours, and ill timed Spirit of Fadlion. I recommended
to you to imitate with Ardour their Vidories over the Perfians,
at Plataea, Sala mis and Marathon; the Sea-fight at A rtemifium,
and the Condu<<5l of Tolmidas, who marched in Security with
a thoufand chofen Athenians through Peloponnefus, an Enemy's
Country; but to avoid the Sicilian Expedition, in which they
fent Succours to the Leontines, even while the Lacedaemonians
"had made an Incurfion into their own Territories, and Decelia
was fortified againft them. I advifed you to avoid their laft .
Imprudence, when although they were unfuccefsful in the War^
and the Lacedaemonians invited them to Peace; although,,
befides Attica, they were in PoffefTion of Lemnos, Imbros and
Scyros; while their democratical Conftitution of Government^
eftablifhcd by Law, was yet unviolated, yet they refufed all
Piopofds, and determined to carry on a War, they were un-
able to fupport. Cleophon, a Maker of Lyres, whom many
People remembered in the Shackles of a Slave, threatened to cut
any Man's Throat with his Sword, who even mentioned the
Name of Peace. To fuch Extremity did they, at length, reduce
the Republic, that they were abundantly fatisfied to conclude
a Peace, after having ceded all their Dominions, rafed the
Walls of Athens, received a Lacedaemonian Garrifon and Go-
vernor, and furrendered their Democracy to thirty Tyrants, vvlio
put to Death fifteen hundred Citizens, even without a Trial.
I Such
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Such Imprudence, I confefs, I advifcd you to guard againft,
but to imitate the Adlions I have juft now mentioned. Nor
did I hear thefe Circumftances, but from the Man, to vvhoni
of all others I am moft nearly allied. For my Father Atro-
metus (whom you, Demofthenes, calumniate, neither know-
ing nor conlidering what he was in his Youth, although you
yourfelf derive your Defcent, on your Mother's Side, from the
houfelefs Scythians) this Father fled from the Tyranny of the
thirty, and was one of the Leaders, who brought home the
People from Exile. My Mother's Brother, Cleobulus, was
joint Commander U^ith Demaenetus of the Fleet, that gained a
Vidlory over the Lacedemonian Admiral Chilon. Thus it hath
been cuftomary to me to hear from my own Family the for-
tunate, or adverfe Accidents of the Republic.
You befides objedt to me my Oration before the great Coun-
cil of Arcadia, and my Condud: as an AmbafTador; you repre-
fent me as a Deferter to the Enemy, thyfelf the verieft fugitive
Slave, and only not fligmatized like a barbarian Fugitive. Yet,
to the utmoft of my Power, I engaged the Arcadians, and other
Grecian States, in a War againft Philip. But when no Mortal
fuccoured the Republic; when fonie waited indolently for the
Event, and others turned their Arms againft us; when our
City-Haranguers converted the War into an Income to fupply
their Luxury, 1 confefs I then advifed the People to be recon-
ciled to Philip, and conclude that Peace, which you, Demoft-
B b 2 henes.
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henes, who never handled a Sword, imagine diflionourable
but which I pronounce to be far preferable to War. But,
Athenians, you fhould confider your Ambafladors with regard
to thofe favourable Conjunctures, which may have happened in
their Embailies, as you judge of your Generals with regard to
the Forces they Command. Yet you eredl Statues, and appoint
the moft honourable Seats in your Theatres, and Crowns and
Entertainments in the Prytanasum, not for them, who bring
you home Conditions of Peace, but for them, who conquer
your Enemies. But if Profecutions are to be the Portion of
your Ambafladors, and honours of your Generals, you will
render your Wars perpetual, without Negotiations of Peace,
or Heralds to propofe them. No Man will ever be an Ambaflk-
dor.
It now remains to fpeak to the Affairs of Cherfbbleptes and
the Phocjeans, with other Articles, of which I am accufed. (20)
I made an exadt Report, Athenians, of whatever I law, both
in my firft and fecond Embafly, in the Manner I faw it; of
whatever I heard, in the Manner I heard it. Do you, there-
fore, afk either what I faw, or what I heard with regard to
Cherfoblcptes ? I faw, and all our Ambafladors faw his Son
delivered, aa an Hoftage to Philip. He continues fuch at this
Inftant. But it happened, when we were difcharging our firft
Embafly, that I returned hither with my Colleagues, and
Philip
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Philip marched into Thrace; but he promifcd us not to invade
Cherfonefus, while the Peace was under your Confideration.
In that very Day, therefore, in which you decreed this Peace,
there was not the leaft Mention made of Cherfobleptes. When
we were afterwards appointed to demand Philip's Oath, nor
had yet fet forward upon our fecond EmbafTy, an Aflembly
was fummoned, of which Demofthenes, who now accufes me,
was eledled Preiident. In this Allembly Critobulus declared,
he was fent by Cherfobleptes, and defired, that he might be
allowed to tender the Oaths to Philip's Ambafladors, and that
the Name of Cherfobleptes might be enrolled among your Con-
federates. (21) When he had made this Declaration, Alex-
imachus, of the Pelegian Tribe, gave a Decree to the Presidents
of the Aflembly to be read, in which it was refolved, that
Critobulus, in Conjundion with your other Confederates, might
tender the Oaths to Philip. When this Decree was read, as
I prefume you all remember, Demofthenes rofe from among
the Prefidents, and declared, that he would not propofe
this Decree to the People, nor diflblve the Peace with Philip,
nor acknowledge fuch Confederates, as adled like People, who
have no other Concernment in a Sacrifice, than to partake of
its Libations: but that, however, he would appoint another
Aflembly to take the Affair into Confideration. When you
received
(zt) That as the Athenians and their tobulus might be allowed to do In the
AlHes adminiftered the Oaths of Ratifi- Name of Cherfobleptes, as one of their
cation to Philip s Ambafladors, fo Cri- Allies, Schowast,
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received tliis Declaration v/ith repeated Clamours, and called upon
the Prefidents by their Names to come forward on the Tribu-
nal, you confirmed the Decree in Oppofition to his Opinion.
In Proofofthefe Truths, fummon Aleximachus, who preferred
the Decree, and the Colleagues of Demofthenes, when he was
Prefident. Then read their Teftimony.
The Testimony.
Demosthenes, therefore, who lately wept over the Name
of Cherfobleptes, appears evidently to have excluded him from
the general Confederacy. As foon as that AfTembly was dif-
mifled, Philip's AmbafTadors tendered the Oaths to our Con-
federates in the Court appointed for the Councils of your
Generals. Yet my Profecutor had the Affurance to tell you,
that I had driven Critobulus, the AmbaiTador of Cherfobleptes,
from the Sacrifices, in Prefence of your Confederates, while the
People were deliberating on their Decree, and the Generals
were fitting in Council. Whence had I fuch Authority?
How was the Affair pafied over in Silence ? If I had dared to
ad: in fuch a Manner, would you, Demofthenes, have fuffcred
it? Would you not have filled the AfiTembly with Vociferation
and Clamour, if you had feen me, as you lately affirmed, driv-
ing an Ambafiiidor from the Sacrifices? But let the Crier
fummon the Generals, and the Deputies of the Confederates,
that you may hear their Evidence,
The Evidence,
Is
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Is it not then, Athenians, moft terrible, that any Man
(liall dare to utter fuch Falfehoods againft a Fellow Citizen,
not his indeed, for there I would corred myfelf, but yours,
when under the Danger of a capital Trial? Did not our An-
ceftors wifely ordain in Profecutions for Murder in our great
Court of Judicature, the Palladium, when they obliged the
Perfon, who was acquitted, to take out the Bowels of the dead
Body, and to fwear (and this ancient Cuftom is ftill preferved)
that the Judges, who had determined in his Favour, had pro-
nounced a juft and upright Sentence? If otherwife, he impre-
cated Perdition to himfelf and his Family, while he prayed for
every Blefling to his Judges. This Inftitution, Athenians,
was of much Wifdom and good Policy. (22) For if none of
you would willingly charge himfelf with pronouncing Sentence on
the guilty, (23) much more fhould you avoid condemning the
innocent by a Sentence, which takes away his Life, or deprives
him
(22) Perhaps this Paflage is not (o of our Critics, in almoft all other In-
clifficult as the Tranfliuor imagines, for fiances fo judicious, would here very un-
otherwife our Commentators would not necefiar. ly read vikuvto, for vmuvtu? ^
have pafled it over in Silence. Stephans and unhappily confine the Spirit and Li-
underftands it in a Manner very different bcrty of Oratory and Orators by the meer
irom that of Wolfius and his Editors. Mechanifm of grammatical Rules. How-
He gives kis Opinion upon it with a Mo- ever, when Scaliger propoics rif^vcvToe.
defly beStting his great Learning, qui- ra 7 o'ttia applied to i/. )t. -~j/7-a he feems to
bus verbis puio earn rnnuere, and the pre- point to the true Reading and Conflruc-
fent Tranf. ation follows his Opinion, as tion.
well as his Reading, TE/zvoyraf ra ro'^wts! , (23) It fhould fiem by this Cufiom,
which makes a confiderable Alteration that the Tudcres imagined themlelves ab-
in the Senfe.
Yet flill the ExprefTions folved from any Enour in acquitting the
'Eocvrov o(,vuTTXri(r(xt (pom ^lytdia rjirn Perfon, p;ofccuted for Murder, if Le
<> are unexplained, and the Reafbn- fwore to the Juftice of their Sentence,
ing ii inconclufive and obfcuie. Some
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? 192 O R A T I O N O F
him of his Property, or degrades him from the Privileges of a
Citizen, after the Lofs of which fome have put themfelves to
Death, and others have retired from the Affairs of the PubUc. (24)
Will you not then, Athenians, grant me your Forgivenefs, if
I fhould call him a polluted Wretch, impure in his Perfon, and
proftituted in his Eloquence ? I {hall then deraonftrate, that
the Remainder of his Charge, with regard to Cherfobleptes, is
evidently falfe. For it is the happieft Circumftance, and in my
Opinion, of utmoft Importance to them, who are accufed, that
the Remembrance of particular ConjunAures, with the Decrees
formed upon them, and the Names of the Perfons, who pro-
pofed thofe Decrees, are for ever preferved in your public
Records.
But Demofthenes hath afferted, that Cherfobleptes was ru-
ined, becaufe, although he himfelf had earneftly advifed our
going into Thrace, when that Monarch was befieged, and en-
tering our Proteft againft the Conduct of Philip, yet, being of
principal Authority in the Embafly, and particularly dif^inguifh-
ed by your Favour, I had abfolutely refufed, and with the
other AmbafTadors fat down indolently in Oreum, receiving
Entertainments of Hofpitality. Now hear the Letter Chares
fent to the People, the twenty-fifth of February, when Cher-
fobleptes had already loft his Kingdom, and Philip had made
himfelf
(? 4) ^>>j/iO(r/a ? T6X? UT>>;(rai/, tranflated yvua-Bivre;. However, he very honeftly
by Wolfius, puMice periermit, and con- acknowledges, that the Paflage is obfcuie.
firmed in his Notes by ^xveins KaTo,-
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himfelf Mafter of the facred Mountain. Demofthenes, one of
our Colleagues, was Prefident of the AfTembly on the twenty-
fourth of the fame Month.
The Letter.
Yet we did not only ftay here the remaining Days of this
Month, but did not fet out upon our Journey 'till March. In
Evidence of this Fadt, I can produce the Senate itfelf; for its
Decree, which orders the AmbafTadors to leave Athens and to
receive Philip's Oath, is ftill extant. Read me that Decree,
and afterwards at what Time it was propofed.
The Decree. The Time.
? You hear it was propofed the third of March. How many
Days therefore had Cherfobleptes loft his Kingdom before I
left Athens ? Your General Chares and his Letters declare the
Month before, if February be indeed the Month before March.
Could I then have prefervcd Cherfobleptes, who before my
Departure from home was totally undone? Can you imagine
that this Man ever told you a Syllable of Truth with regard
either to Macedonia or ThcfTaly, who thus utters his Lies againft
the Senate, and your public Records; agaiaft the Evidence of
Time and the Meetings of your Affemblics? Did you then,
Demofthenes, at Athens exckide Cherfobleptes from our Ca-
pitulation with Philip when you were Prefident of the AfTembly,
and did you at Oreum lament and pity him? Do you now
Vol. IL C c accufe
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? 194 ORATION OF
accufe me of Corruption, you, who fuffered a Fine to be in-
flidled upon you by the Areopagus for not profecuting the Ac-
tion of Battery you had laid againft your Coufin-German,
although you had yourfeU broken your own Head? And do
you now prefume to talk to us with an Air of Importance, as if
we did not know you to be the Baftard Son of Demofthenes
tlie Sword-Cutler?
But you have attempted to prove, that befides abjuring the Em-
baffy to the Amphidyons I afted in Violation of my Charadler
as an Ambaflador. (25) To this Purpofe you have recited one
Decree, and pafled over another. But when I was appointed
Ambaflador to the Amphiftyons, although I was then in a very
languid State of Health, yet with much Chearfulnefs I made
you my Report of the Embafly, from which I had returned,
nor did I abjure the other, but promifed to undertake it, if I
were able. When my Colleagues were departing, I fent my
Brother with my Nephew, and my Phyfician, to the Senate,
3iot to abjure the Office in my Name (for the Laws do not allow
us to abjure in the Senate an Employment conferred upon us by
the People) but to declare my ill State of Health. Yet when
my Colleagues heard the Misfortunes, that had befallen the
Phocasans, and were returned, an Aflembly was fummoncd, at
which I was prefent, now perfedly recovered from my Diforder,
and the People infifting, that we fliould all engage in this third
1 Embafl]',
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Embafly, who had been chofen at firft, I efteemed it my Duty
not to prevaricate with the Athenian People. You did not
afterwards accufe me with regard to this Embafly, when I
made my Report, but you now attack me upon the fecond, ap-
pointed for demanding PhiHp's Oath, which I can clearly and
juftly defend. To you indeed it is moft convenient, as to all
Liars, to alter the Situation and Circumftances of Time, but
I fhall regularly purfue my Difcourfe, beginning with our De-
parture on our fecond Embafly. Firft then, among our ten
Ambafladors, to whom another was added by our Confederates,
not one would ever eat with this Demofthenes, when we de-
parted for our fecond Embafly; nor upon the Road, whcre-
ever it was poflible to avoid it, would they enter the fame Inn,
becaufe they perceived he had formed fome villainous Deflgns
againft them. But with regard to going into Thrace, there
was not the leaft Mention of it, for the Decree gave no Infljuc-
tions about it, and only ordered us to receive Philip's Oath,
with fome other particular Diredions. Nor indeed, if we had
gone, was it poflible to have rendered any Service to Cherfoblep-
tes, as his Aflairs were in fiich a Situation, as you have been
juft now informed; nor has Demofthenes told you one Syllable
of Truth, but invents thefe Falfehoods, and having nothing
real whereof to accufe me, he utters thefe monftrous Calumnies.
But two Men followed him carrying a couple of Blankets,
in one of which, as he informed us, was a Talent of Silver.
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From thence his Colleagues recolle? ted fome of his ancient
Nicknames. While he was a Boy, he was called Battalus foy
his Debauchery and Infamy ', when he came to age, and had
taken out an Adion againft his Guardians, for ten Talents, he
was furnamed the Serpent: but having commenced Man, he
afTumed the common Title of all Villains, and was ftyled, the
Calumniator. Thus he travelled, as he then faid, and as he
lately afTured you, redeeming Prifoners, although he knew, that
Philip never had demanded a Ranfom during the War for any
Athenian Prifoners, and heard from all his Friends, that he
would give the reft their Freedom, whenever a Peace was con-
cluded. But while there were Numbers under this Misfortune,
he carried a Talent with him, a Ranfom only fufficient to re-
deem a fingle Prifoner, and even that fingle Prifoner not
extremely rich.
When we arrived in Macedonia, and had afiembled together,
and found Philip returned from Thrace, the Decree, upon
which we were empowered to a6t as Ambafladors, was read, and
we enumerated the Particulars we had in Command belides
tliofe that regarded the Requifition of Philip's Oath. But
while none of us mentioned the greater Concernments of our
Embafiy, but dwelt rather upon Matters of lefs Importance, I
pronounced an Oration, which it is now become neceilary to-
repeat. And here, Athenians, let me conjure you by the
Godsi that as you have heard me accufed according to the
good!
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good Pleafure of my Adverfary, fo you will alfo hear me re-
gularly make my Defence, and grant me the fame Attention to
the remainder of this Difcourfe, as you have given to the begin-
ning. When our Ambafladors were aflembled, as I have
aleady faid, I fpoke to them in this Manner; " that they feemed
** to me greatly to mifunderftand the principal Command of
" the People; becaufe, if the Republic had fent her Minifters
" with Authority to treat of the Requifition of Philip's Oath,
" and any other particular Articles, and to mention the Affair
" of the Prifoners, I imagined every thing might be executed
'* with Eafe. But to confult with Judgement and Integrity
" upon the Sum of things, with regard either to you, or Philip,
** is the proper Office of wife and upright Ambafladors; I
** mean particularly the Expedition into Thermopylae, which
you behold is now in Agitation. But I will demon ftrate by
very powerful Arguments, that I do not unadvifedly form
" my Conjedlures upon this Affair. The Theban Ambaffadors
*' are already arived ; the Lacedemonians are coming, and we
*' bring with us a Decree of the Athenian People, in which is
** exprefsly written;" The Ambassadors are empowered to
ACT IN ALL other INSTANCES, IN THE BEST MaNNER THEY
ARE ABLE. " The Grecians in general look with Earneft-
" nefs towards the Event. If the Athenian People therefore
" had efteemed it befitting their Dignity to declare openly
*' to Philip, that he fhould reftrain the Infolence of the
"? Thebans, and reflore the Cities of Bocotia, they would
" have
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" have certainly mentioned it in this Decree. However, in
" the uncertainty of the Event, they left the Explanation of
" this AfFair to their Ambafladors, who poflibly might be able
** to prevail upon Philip, and they determined to make the
*' Experiment in our Perfons. Yet it becomes whoever is
" ftudious of the public Welfare, not to invade the Province
** of others, whom the People might have fent inflead of us,
and to be cautious of giving OfFence to the Thebansj one
of whom, their General Epaminondas, unawed by the Dig-
nity of the Athenians, exprefsly declared in a Theban AC-
fembly, that the Arcade of the Athenian Citadel fhould be
** carried to Thebes, and placed before the Temple of
" Cadmus. "
While I was thus fpeaking, Demofthenes, as all our Col-
leagues know, cries out aloud, " In addition to our other
*' Misfortunes this iEfchlnes is an errant Boeotian. " Among
others thefe were fome of his ExpreiFions* " This Man is
" fond of wild and dangerous Projects; while I confefs my-
'' felf
(25) It was the political Intereft of argues againfl: himfelf. The feeming
Athens to reprefs the Power of Thebes, Prudence of not provoking the Thebans ;
and for that Purpofe to reflore the Cities the invidious Pvlanner of telling the Story
of Boeotia. ^fchines niuft therefore of Kpaminondas, fo apt to provoke the
very abfurdly charge Demofthenes with Indignation of his Audience ? , the Art of
favouring tlie Basotians, yet thus our making Demollhenes reproach him with
great Tranflator and his Commentators his Zeal for the Boeotians in the Boldnefs
underftand him. Ui^] tkV Bo<wt<<V (TTrt? - of his Projeds, the Timidity under which
Sd^ei S Ayjf^oG-Bivfig. Thus the Keafan- he reprelents his Adverfary, are totally
ing of both thefe fuppofed Speeches ^^f^*
becomes confufed, and our Orator
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** felf of a more timorous Difpofition, and apprehenfive even
" of a diftant Danger. I difclaim the Defign of fettingthe Re-
*' public at variance with the Thebans, and imagine our
" Inftrudlions for adling in the beft Manner we are able, con-
" fift in not being impertinently bufy. Philip is now marching
*' to Thermopylas. I withdraw from all Concernment in this
" Affair. No Man fhall ever impeach me for Philip's Vii^o-
" ries, but only whether I fpoke, or aded in puniflual Obedi-
** ence to my Inftrudtions. " To conclude, our Colleagues
agreed, that as each of us fhould be feparately afked his Opinion,
he {hould deliver it, as he thought would be moft expedient for
the Commonwealth. To prove what I affert, fummon our
Colleagues, and read their Depofitions.
The Depositions.
When there was a general Congrefs of all the Ambafladors of
Greece aflembled at Pella; when Philip was prefent, and the
Herald had fummoned the Athenian Ambafladors, we advanced,
not as in our former Embafly, according to our Age (a Cuftom
once held in efteem, and reputed honourable to the Republic)
but according to the fhamelefs Affurance of Demoflhenes. For
although he profefled himfelfthe youngeftof us all, he declared
he would not yield the privilege of hrft addrefling Philip, or
fuffer any other, pointing to me, to take PofiefTion of his Atten-
tion, and leave the other AmbafTadors nothing to fay. He
began his Speech with accufing his Colleagues, that they did
not
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not all come with the fame Sentiments, or agree in their
Opinions, and then particularly mentioned the good OfEces he
had himfelf performed for Philip; firft, that he had fupported
the Decree of Philocrates, when he was indidled for propofing,
in Contradi6lion to the Laws already enadled, that Philip
might be permitted to fend Ambafladors to Athens to nego-
tiate a Peace. He repeated the Decree, that he himfelf had
written, in which he had ordered, that the Peace fhiould be
concluded with Philip's Herald and his Ambafladors; and that
fome certain Days fhould be appointed, upon which the People
fhould deliberate on the Conditions. He then infinuated, that
he had effedually flopped the mouths of thofe, who would
have oppofed the Peace, not by his Speeches only, but by thus
fixing the Time of the People's Deliberations. He afterwards
produced another Decree, direding the People to confult upon
entering into a League offenfive and defenflve with Philip; and
another, appointing a principal Seat for his Ambafl'adors, at the
Bacchanalian Games. He then added his Solicitude on their
Account; his placing the Cufliions for ihem at our Entertain-
ments, befides his Watchings, and his Wakings, occafioned by
thofe, who envied him, and woijd willingly do Diflionour to
his Reputation. The reft was fo perfcdly ridiculous, that his
Colleagues for Sliame covered their Faces; " he had entertained
to
** Philip's Ambafladors moft hofpitably; had hired for them,
*' when they departed, a Chariot with a couple of Mules, and
f ' accompanied them himfelf on horfe-back, not concealing jlu.
^' Dark-
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*' Darknefs, as certain others had done, but openly profcirmg
" his Zeal for his Service. " He then with earneftnefs corredled
his former Afiertions; " I did not fay, you are handfome, be-
'' caufe Woman is of all Creatures the handfomeft; I did not
" fay, you were a powerful Drinker, becaufe 1 thought drinking
^' was Praife for a Spunge; I did not fay, you had an extraor-
*' dinary Memory, becaufe I imagined it an Encomium for an
'* hireling Pleader. " Not to be tedious, fuch were in general
his Expreflions in the Prefence, I might almofl: affirm, of all
the Ambafladors of Greece, from whence there arofe no com-
mon Peals ot Laughter.
When he had ended, and Silence enfued, I was compelled
to fpeak after thefe ftrange Abfurdities, and the exceflive Bafe-
nefs of his Adulation. I was of neceflity obliged to make fome
Remarks upon his Calumny againft his Colleagues, and I faid,
" the Athenians had appointed us their Ambaffadors, not with
" an Intention of pleading for ourfelves in Macedonia, but that
" we might be thought worthy of the Republic, in the
" Opinion of our Fellow-Citizens. " I lightly mentioned the
Requifition of his Oath, which we were come to receive, and
ran over the other Articles you had given us in Command ; for
the copious and powerful Orator Demofthenes had totally for-
gotten every thing neceflary. I then fpoke of Philip's Expedi-
tion, the Temple of Delphos, and the Council of the Amphic-
tyons, but implored him efpecially to determine the Affair of
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DelphoSj not by Force of Arms, but by the Suffrages of all
Parties, and an equitable Decifion. If however fuch a Decifion
were impoffible (and this manifeftly appeared, for he had a large
Body of Troops affembled round him) I affured him, whoever
propofed to regulate the religious Rights of the Grecians ought
to have great Regard to Religion in general, and to pay much
Attention to thofe, who endeavoured to inftrud him in the
Ufages of particular Countries. At the fame Time I mentioned
as a neceffary Preliminary, the building the Temple at Delphos,
and as foon as poffible affembling the Amphictyons. I then
repeated the Oath, which was fworn by our Anceftors, *' I
" never will deftrdy a City within the Amphictyonic Confede-
" racy, nor drive its Inhabitants from the running Stream,
" either in War or Peace: if any one violates this Oath^ I
" will take up Arms againft him, and utterly deftroy his Cities
*? ' to the Ground: if any one facrilegiouHy plunders the Trea-
" fures of Apollo, or is privy to fuch Impiety, or fhall form
*' any Deiign againft whatever is contained in his Temple, I
" will with all my Faculties, Feet, Hands and Voice avenge
<< the God. " 1 then added, that there were ffrong Execrac-
tions to confirm this Oath.
I CONCLUDED with faying, that in my Opinion we fllould not
fuffer the Cities of Boeotia to continue in Ruins, fince they were
included in the Amphidyonic Confederacy. I reckoned the
twelve Nations, who participated of the Rights of the Temple,
Thef-
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Theilalians, tlie Boeotians in general, not the Thcbans only,
the Dorians, lonians, Perrhaebians, Magnctcs, Locrians, Oetseans,
Phthian'^, Maleens, Phoczeans, (26) and I proved, that each of
thefe Nations had an equal Vote in the Council, the greateft and
the leaft; thus the Deputy from Dorium or Cytinium (27) had
a Suffrage as powerful as the Lacedgemonians, for each Nation
had two Votes : thus the Ionian Deputies from Erythrsa and
Priene were equal to the Athenian ; and all others in the fame
Manner.