The Orations Of Demosthenes And Aeschines On The Crown With Intr Essays And Notes By G A And W H Simcox

Author : Aeschines
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230143828
Total Pages : 90 pages
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Download or read book The Orations of Demosthenes and Æschines on the Crown, with Intr. Essays and Notes by G. A. and W. H. Simcox written by Aeschines and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...m 8i nai Bouotovc. Among the anti-Macedonian party at Athens, there would be many who, not satisfied with weaning Thebes from Philip, would have preferred to rouse Boeotia against Thebes. But the writer attributes the abject decree or decrees to which he replies, to the failure of an attempt made (clearly after the capture of Elatea) to alienate Boeotia and Thessaly: for such a failure there is no room in the history. The astounding demand with which the letter closes, that the Athenians shall disfranchise their bad advisers and send them along to Philip, is a clumsy copy of the demand for the extradition of the anti-Macedonian orators after Alexander's capture of Thebes. We cannot say that the reply to the Thebans may not contain the substance of a despatch in which Philip congratulated them on having repulsed some advances of the Athenians, of which we know nothing, except that they were made, if at all, before he occupied Elatea. It is, of course, conceivable that Demosthenes should have thought it desirable to reply to this menacing act by a formal declaration of war, and such a declaration, if it was to be made at all, after being withheld so long, might reasonably take the form of a rhetorical indictment of Philip, such as we read 232-239. Though rambling, the document is not wholely unemphatic or ineffective, and its discursiveness might be defended on the ground that in a hurried decree, intended to remove a prevailing panic, every available topic had to be introduced. We seem to have the decree very much as its author, whoever he was, left it. It is very tolerably correct in point of form, for 8A hihotaai, instead of 8iSox6ai, is a natural result of its being very rhetorical and very long. These considerations...