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  • Speech 1: First Olynthiac
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  • Speech 4: First Philippic
  • Speech 5: On the Peace
  • Speech 6: Second Philippic
  • Speech 7: On Halonnesus
  • Speech 8: On the Chersonese
  • Speech 9: Third Philippic
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    Demosthenes, Speeches 1-10

    On the Peace

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    [5] For in the first place, Athenians, when it was proposed to take advantage of the unrest in Euboea1 and side with Plutarchus in a war that would bring us more expense than glory, I was the first and indeed the only speaker to oppose it, and I narrowly escaped being torn to pieces by those who induced you for trifling gains to commit many serious errors. It was not long before you incurred disgrace and suffered indignities2 such as no men have ever received from those whom they have helped, and so you realized the baseness of those to whom you then gave ear and the wisdom of the advice you received from me.

    1 Through Philip's intrigues a Macedonian party had been formed in the cities of Euboea. Plutarchus, the ruler of Eretria, applied to Athens for help against a rising. The request was supported by Eubulus and Midias, but opposed by Demosthenes. A force was sent under the command of Phocion and won a battle, but Plutarchus proved himself a traitor and was expelled from Eretria.

    2 According to the Scholiast, Plutarchus seized some of the Athenian troops and compelled Athens to ransom them for 50 talents.

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    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    1573 [COGNATE ACCUSATIVE]: megal' hamartanein
    2766 [SOME NEGATIVE PHRASES]: monon ou diespasthên

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    439 [3) Meta, mit.]

    Cross references from J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes:
    46, 9

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    Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
    OCLC: 10903499
    ISBN: 0674992636

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