The Olynthiacs of Demosthenes [microform]

발행: 1890년

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thus, immortatim 1 in his orations limo no Ont hecomesamiliarisames in ancient history but lime ove ne v

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Olynt lius no v came more directi into the circle os Grecianstates an entere iam a neu career os diversifie and

evenisti history. Ive cannot solio v it in dotali Concisoly u is in solio v Originalty by descent and by natural affinit allie to Athens, laxit in iis Peloponnesian 'var

Themai Gult by in Amyntas to avo omni tho Illyrians attracting most os in Chalcidie cities to ita assianco by tho libortilit os ita internationa principies an lpolitica spirit, but by liis Ver prosperit a valcening ilio

Thoriali os Olynthiis complete the conques of the lairi yi vo Chalci sic cities, vidiose destruction vas a complete that Demosthenes V in his hir Philippic, sive ear aster-Wards that thoi siles could hardi bo ound an u ni itl o supposed thiat the had neve been inlimiod. sudor histor of tho period afferatio accession filii lipto ille throno may shed light o the relations os tho Olyminians, Athenians, an Macedonians at the time of tho Olynthia War, an may liel the reade to a bellar unde standin os the Olynthia orations. IV histon has ovo uconcisely and vitii caresul reserence to authorities: Ihis event tho accession os lailip soon ange illo positiones assaim alie Athenians atrant supporte a rival Amseus,

phipolis Diod. XVI. 3), and a portion os thoi forces, prim

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INTRODUCTION. INTRODUCTION.

t- os thei remissnes by attachinin himself, Whilo hedeluded them vult ui assurunco that he interutexto restoreu to them aster capturinges c. Aristi R. 138; Do Halon. 28). But sis promis horai no sulfit, and tho Olynthiana, alarine at the comitiosi; and the rapi extensionis his Wer, thereum sent to Alliens to negotiato an alliance Olynth. II. 20), but Without succosa, for uio Athenia stillanistia uis continue assurancea os Philip Repulso Iin that quarter, the rea sit accepte in allianco Iphicli that politio monarch ossere viein, and received fron himilis cession o Potidaea, talcen Don the Athenians B. c. 357 by theu combine forces Phil. II. 22 mrote, XI. 335ὶ And even bolam this he had cede 1 to them tho di trici an curos Anthemus, o that ho essectuali securedinci mendshi to himself and thei hostilio against Athens, hile, Without an somnia declaration os War, he vas commencing that series of aggressio 'hici Ied too vhat mas calle tho utar of Amphipolis, an continue 1 betiveintho Athenians an himself sor' vetvs years, id the incoctis. o. 346 FH. Leg. pas min. But Philip and tho Olyn

thousandisio renaries mere despatulis unde the command

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vitether illo oration dolivere to variis tho ondisi. c. 350ὶWa productive os an immediat an practica resulta, forsoon aster varda tho Athenian larces vero engaged in BDboea in puttinidovi a revolt, probabi instigate by Philiphimself Do Pace, b). Fron Euboea, tu tho sint halnos B. c. 349, a cavati forco os Athenian uigena rossed ver OOlynthus, and Philoclionis, an author quoi ed by Dionysius o Halicarnassus Epis. I. ad Amm. IX.), states that Charmmas despalched with a bo ly of tve thousan hoplites an lthre hundred horaemen, ad culae . his sorce, hora eVer, of Avienia citi gens, Miri Grote suggesta XI. 467ὶ vas not soni tili in lalter pari os tho par, vities continue Ut voyears and a lials Ne are sumis assured by Demosthenea

ilius, an aucti ali that in bota otion vivi ertainti os thoeilaei os tho Olynthiaca os Demosthenes O these transactions. The more common account, adopted by Becher in his memosthenea a Stat man and orator, aliiΗwal in his Mistor os Graece,' etc., and generali accepted preViO INTRODUCTION.

thiae orationi rem occasioned by three successive embassies

fini embassy, opposed by Demades, Eubulus, and thera, vas Warmi supported by Demosthenes, an a force of t vothousan mercenaries, unde Chares, vas sent so theirretios iu astor hinnisliin about illo coast os Pallene and capturinia sev scaue inibanda os Macedonians theyreturned in triumph to thens Beate in Wo engagωinent an drivem villiin their alis, the Olynthians no vaent a secon embassy Demosthenes, in a secondiration, exertexat his energies in rous ille Athenians to exertiona vortii os the interest at talis and their ornier m ;and the eoplo sent a fore os soli thousan mercenaries and ono hundre 1 and si horae unde Charideinus Ilio Olynthians siniec sortiiri meet them, and vere repulsed; and thon uio mercenarie resolve theniselves into a bandos Deo bootem and tundered the territor vhicli the were soni o proieci a thir 1 embras nox entreate sor anarinno citigens and Demosthenes seconde thei requestiuis hir oration os stili greater menc an eloquence. They accordingi Vote an arm o tW thousan insanin and thres hundred aviar consistin os illae soldiere, Mid summone ali Graece to resis the encroachment os

Groto doca no den the sendingis the three expeditions mentione by Dionysius Quae authorit os Philochorrus, hut ho finda insuperable obrections against associatin them With tho uires orationa os Demosthenes an supposing

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INTRODUCTIORuiem, a Dionysius oes, io constituto ilis tholo Olynthian I 1. Malis Olynthian Lar di mys bemn in 350 B. α, and uis uiro Olynthiaca os Demosthene refer, in my au lyment, to the sint monuia os the wan ut ud ted untii thoeari Uring os 347 B. α so that the arinamenta memtione by Philochonis may have occurri during the astlials of tho vari I cannot but thin stat Dionysius, boingsatisfiex vult finduitiare expedition to Olynthus vllichmigii bo attached a resulta to the three orations of Demo thenes, has too hastily copiod out the thre, in Philochonis, vitii lia assigne the dato os 349 - 48 B. c. to the three o fions simplf Rcause laesound thaeat date oven to the uires empediticina by Philochorus' Groto, XI. p. 4673. The principalmason sor separatin tho thre expellition sim tho thres oration 1 sound in the histor of the Athenian expedition to Euboea. At ille tinio viten the thies Olyntillac Was desivered, no expeditionis Athenian Atiam ha been sunt torilis aidos Olyntlius But Athenian uigena toere sent 1ulier, asa HV stat , soni Euboea during the fini hau of 349 B. αΤlio inserene is uiat illo oration utere ali delivere I priorio that sending Tlis simple lac uiat tho Olynthiam malis no allusion to tho Eurum expedition certaini favors inoopinion that tho orationa preceded that agitatin and impo tant expedition Grote, XI. p. 4693. The question cannoti, seuled aluiongli that question caretes vii it nother, nainely, ilio date os illo Olynthiacs, hici Grote solio ve Iby Whiston, assigna to 350 B. c., laxit lites is more coammoni assigne to 349 - 48 B. o.

There Is another exed question Whic is more insolubintlian these, and that relates to tho oriter in vilicii tho threo attons vero delivere 1. In ali ille manuscripta a mellisa principes editioris fieraro mings 1 in tho ordo in vilichthe ars no nives Med. But Dionysius cite thein by INTRODUCTIOR

2 1834ὶ has thoroum canu sed tho internia Vulanctandiresentea in a clear an strong gli in argumen in lavor of tho tra sitiones Her. Diudori considera las Imment conclusive, and has prefixod a sum arys it to rus tho Olynthiacs 'vesterniann has mache thoinime conclusion in tho sint partis his Quoestisnaea Dent urentea wltero he has devoted an elaborato reatis of eightP

may be rogardoxas substantiali mitte by the almos unamimous verssic os competent judges alites vali no v standa almost alone in opposition to the spontaneous OnVIctIO orseelin that tho thiri oration alone vas vo ni bo and nius in lac havo been the last orationis Demosthene On

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xo INTRODUCTION. INTRODUCTION. XVorderis tho manuscripta cannot bo allo vel to inti uis question o ilio chronolo icat order, oris thia principio tho snt Philippi hicli solio varitiem in ille manuscripta vovid precede them Since, by common consent, it vas de- livered prior toritiem. The argument Dorii tho content of the two orations is so plausibi On both sides that tho advocate os ulter feein t haVo carine his mini, id diisneiglibor cometi and earcheth him,' and 1 so sarcironi conclusive that tho Ver samo achno vledged characteristic, as sor example the particular an speciali Olyntiatae chamacter os ille sint oration a compare mul the consesse Bygeuenit an Philippi cast of tho socond, has been adducedas an argumen O both sicles. Fortunately the value and interest os illo orationa o no dependi a knowledge ostliei chronological oriter henc somo Otho best recenteditions as sor instance, hos Os Franke, eiulantet, and Hesiop, illae ignoro the question or baret allitile incit. Betulera vilio Me intereste incit ili do v et to consult

Tho Olynthiaca vero calle 1 liilippica hi Dionysius os

Halicarnassus, ii rechone a suci t vetus orations alli earing more ordes directi against Philip and ali deliveredin the courso os about a many years B. c. 352 - 340ὶ, and who numberet tho Olynthiac a thesecond, M d, and laurui in the Series. Lasthene and Euthycrates, of Whon tho somne to tho

raciness, simplicit NMnness, an clearnes are in equinyinaracteristic os these orations. alter are mast pieces f

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HI INTRODUCTIOR INTRODUCTION.

les itistinctives Olynthiac and more Philippi uri in sar

os in Astentans against Philip besen tru questior o su

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enapim o the oundation os industice, salsehood, and Pedi INTRODUCTION.

advico, vhichris to sensimmediate succo to the Olynthians, to insorin tho Thessalians os this purpos an invito their compenation, and aboVeruli, to sto inlicing, in Whiel thoirsuperiorit Was Hready to conspicuous, an begin t pay

fortuno and the Nessing of heaven than Philip DO Our

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mTRODUCTION. XXI

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INTRODUCTION. XXIII

by suitabis seeling and expressed in a stylo os absolute sib

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