Speech on the crown. With introd. and notes by Evelyn Abbott and P.E. Matheson

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and the nred of Ihens. The patriolisin os the eopte gerierat ly the wealth of the Three

bear linxit against Thebes is to sulfi the prayer o Philip and open

polic that I neglected. TZe spirit of nar soliar is tintortche , ore mi oriune. The statesnaan is concerne not vitii the past, 1 1viti the futureri 102. and the present. Instea os cavilling at evenis for the en is a God vilis it conside the spirit fisa poli cy. It is no ni fauit is Philip

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Aeschines then aridoro . These decrees are identicatrix illi Ctesiphon's, but Aeschines et thenici 223. alone, though he had beller Tound to accus then than no v for manyreaSonS aut the evenis vere to Lear, an he could not have dealt

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of Athens. et I von foroo the alli ance of Euboeans, Achaeans, Corinthians, Thebans Megarians, Leucamans Corcyraeans, an raised large unas of money. hen oti talicis equalit and justice ambet Neenias and them, o fors et that Athens has been protid in the pastato givem ore than her hare to a common cause. Is ou ad a belle poticy, the was the timerio propos it But xve had o do vhat w could not vhat we uould, o Philip xva there to bu the allies Whoni ve rejected. 33 Suppos these cities ad one and oine Philip Would no myaccuser say that I ad rive theni away Philip, the would add, hasio the Hellesponi and the corn- trade, the war is in Attica, theseas are eget vitii privateeis. Such is the malignit of this istic tragedia an counterseit orator. For vliat good has our eloquencedone us, Aeschines' o are the a doctor tvin advice ver the

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every here successisl, t ut Philip's arans repatre the defecis of hisenVoys. O accuSe me of O Vardice, and et expectone to deseat the forces of Philip Phadiso contro ove fortune or Our generalS, but I accepi ut responsibilit so the uties of an oratori I to valel and warn, 2 to reduce the error os dela an ignoranceto a mininium, 3 to produce unit an devotion-al these I havedone And vitii regar to Philip' two instriaments of victon , his arni an his bribes, Ilans ver that viti the forme I have no concern, but ver the lalter I have vo a Victor by In incorruptibility. Thedes eat of Athen does notest at a d Oor.

The asprava of Athens.

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6 267. I xvii read yo eviden ce of the public Services I performed. oum a rea against ines in lives Dii ruined, a I Pra in God may

factor's ut to orget what he has done Pana content vitii men's opinion Os me. Blante noti fortune, but the ovanton fortune. 27 O. One more ivor o public ami= S. I giVe ou leave Aeschines, toblanae ny fortune or everbethino , is ou an Oin to any one Iulio hasno suffere froni Philip an Alexander: hiulci every one man and city, has ussere grievously, o nauSt hilam in fortune of men and the dristis evenis. Vel ou malce me PerSOnali reSponSitae, thoughyou know that s a citigeri an an orator ou hare in What I got done Most me distinguiSla betaueen crime, an error an missortune, and ive punishment pardo an Sympath accordingly, and this resis notae unxvritte laxus o nature, but Aeschines is o brtita indinalicious that he accuses me for What he admits t be niSfortunes. The πιι orator and the false. 276. Thus lae variaeMyo against me a a cunning and Sophistica spealcer, a thoughi ou Nould no se that is description is much more rue

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oii tro utiles; ut Iriva no the firs to introduce a polic o defenditis

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at sacrifice their country and their Deedom to Philip an Alexander, have reverse the old tradition an have Mund thei happines in

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honest, it rould have iis prope mait in alliances, revenites and the like, but though many occasions have offered, o have done nothin sor

foret oner, and wori forciis continuance.

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NOTES