Demosthenes, On the Crown


"when the Spartans", &c. The section refers to the events of 395.

"no trierarch", &c. A trierarch who thought the burden too heavy for him could appeal against it by laying a branch on the altar in the Pnyx, or by taking sanctuary in the Temple of Artemis at Munychia. 128. "to take counsel", &c. Aeschines had asked the jury to refuse Demosthenes a hearing, or at least to require him to follow the same order of treatment as himself."unpleasant". at the Rural Dionysia held in that deme. The reference, however, is here more particularly to Philip's revels after the battle of Chaeroneia, in which, Demosthenes suggests, the Athenian envoys took part.The genuineness of the epitaph is doubtful.

"the decree", &c.: i.e. See Introd. in joining the revolt of the Athenian allies in 356. Most editors say '".eschines" employed'. to Speech on the Embassy. )"make the circuit", or 'beat the bounds'. abstention from taking a prominent part in public life. Demosthenes was, in fact, co-trierarch with Philinus (Speech against Meidias, Sec. )"Philip employed". i.e. The undertaking of the trierarchy conferred exemption from other burdens for the year, and (conversely) no one responsible for another public burden need be trierarch. Glaucothea was the name of a sea-nymph. For Perillus, see Speech on Embassy, Section 295. )"fennel and white poplar". And to show you that I am not saying this now to suit my own purpose, read the letter which we, your envoys, dispatched without delay. the oligarchies which had governed with the help of Sparta in Phlius and Mantinea, and were overthrown after the battle of Leuctra. The text is almost certainly corrupt in places (e.g. Aeschines alleged against Ctesiphon (1) that it was illegal to propose to crown any one who had not passed his examination before the Board of Auditors at the end of his term of office; and that Demosthenes, who had been Commissioner of Fortifications and Controller of the Festival Fund, was still in this position: (2) that it was illegal to proclaim the grant of a crown at the Dionysia, except in the case of crowns conferred by foreign states: (3) that it was illegal to insert untrue statements in the public records, and that the language in which Ctesiphon's decree described the political career of Demosthenes was untrue. Some writers suppose that it was at the meeting in the spring of 339. It is not certain that for 'ivy-bearer' ([Greek: kittophorhos]) we should not read 'chest-bearer' ([Greek: kistophoros]) used with reference to the receptacle containing sacred objects, of which we hear elsewhere in connexion with similar rites."fellow-parishioners". "property in Boeotia".

Eudicus is unknown. The line next quoted is unknown. 29 n."customary offerings", made at the tomb on the third and ninth days after the death."Philocrates". He had shortly before this sent to Athens an express declaration of war, and received a similar declaration from her, the formal excuse for which was found in the recent seizure by his ships of some Athenian merchant-vessels. i.e. 145. "from the altar". As a matter of fact, Demosthenes acted with Philocrates at least down to the return of the First Embassy, and himself proposed to crown Aristodemus for his services (Aeschines, On the Embassy, Sec.Sec. either a decree suspending the law until the indictment should be heard, or one ordering the trial on the indictment to be held.
See Speech for Megalopolitans, Sec.

a small tribe living to the south-west of Thessaly.

strictly the remains, and especially the wine left in the cups, from the previous night's feast; here the long-admitted responsibility of Aeschines for the Peace of 346."Dolopes". 313-6. 'any one who chooses,' i.e. Munychia; none was imprisoned by the Admiralty Board; no warship was abandoned at sea and lost to the State, or left behind here as unseaworthy. 'members of your deme'.

13 and 268 respectively. or possibly, 'some opportunity of recovering himself,' or 'some place of retreat'. "What pecuniary assistance", &c. Demosthenes is thinking of his own services in ransoming prisoners, &c. Some editors translate, 'What public financial aid have you ever given to rich or poor?' probably the hurdles, &c., of which the booths were partly composed. to Speech on the Embassy.The ostensible purpose of Anaxinus' visit was to make purchases for Olympias, Philip's wife. "Empusa", or 'The Foul Phantom': a female demon capable of assuming any shape. The actual proceedings (according to Aeschines' account, summarized in the Introd. to First Philippic).

'When have you ever dispensed State funds in such a way as to benefit any one?' Now produce, for comparison with this, the list under my own law.
Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Diotimus had a command at sea in 338, and his surrender was demanded by Alexander in 335, as was also that of Charidernus (see n. on Olynthiac III, Sec.

224. in view of the alternative which you would have proposed). The cities of Euboea, most of which had been in the hands of Philip's party, were also formed into a confederacy, in alliance with Athens, under the leadership of Chalcis; Philistides was expelled from Oreus, about July 341, by the allied forces under Cephisophon; and later in the summer, Phocion drove Cleitarchus from Eretria.

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