Demosthenes, Philippic 1, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 17

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[17] All this is a necessary provision against Philip’s sudden raids from Macedonia against Thermopylae , the Chersonese , Olynthus , or where he will. You must present to his mind the consideration that you may possibly shake off your excessive apathy and strike out as you did at Euboea , and before that, as we are told, at Haliartus, and quite recently at Thermopylae .¹

Philippic 1. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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First Philippic (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. I: Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Speeches, Speech Against Leptines, I-XVII, XX. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930 (printing).)

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κατὰ Φιλίππου α΄ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 17 focus

[17] ταῦτα μὲν οἶμαι δεῖν ὑπάρχειν ἐπὶ τὰς ἐξαίφνης ταύτας ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκείας χώρας αὐτοῦ στρατείας εἰς Πύλας καὶ Χερρόνησον καὶ Ὄλυνθον καὶ ὅποι βούλεται· δεῖ γὰρ ἐκείνῳ τοῦτʼ ἐν τῇ γνώμῃ παραστῆσαι, ὡς ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῆς ἀμελείας ταύτης τῆς ἄγαν, ὥσπερ εἰς Εὔβοιαν καὶ πρότερόν ποτέ φασιν εἰς Ἁλίαρτον καὶ τὰ τελευταῖα πρώην εἰς Πύλας, ἴσως ἂν ὁρμήσαιτε—

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Philippic 1

1. The Athenians sent a force to Euboea in 357 (cf. Dem. 1.8 ). They helped the Thebans to defeat Lysander at Haliartus in Boeotia in 395. In 352, when Philip tried to march from Thessaly against Phocis , he was checked by the dispatch of an Athenian fleet to Thermopylae .

Demosthenes Philippic 1 17

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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