Demosthenes, On the Peace, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 25

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[25] In the same way by agreement with Philip we have waived our claim to Amphipolis , and we are permitting Cardia¹ to be excepted from the rest of the Chersonese , the Carian² to occupy the islands of Chios , Cos, and Rhodes , and the Byzantines to detain our ships³ in harbor, obviously because we think that the respite which the peace affords is more productive of advantages than wrangling and coming to blows over these points. Therefore it is sheer folly and perversity, after dealing with the powers one by one on matters of vital concern to ourselves, to challenge them all together to fight about this phantom at Delphi .

On the Peace. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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On the Peace (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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περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 25 focus

[25] καὶ Φιλίππῳ νυνὶ κατὰ τὰς συνθήκας Ἀμφιπόλεως παρακεχωρήκαμεν, καὶ Καρδιανοὺς ἐῶμεν ἔξω Χερρονησιτῶν τῶν ἄλλων τετάχθαι, καὶ τὸν Κᾶρα τὰς νήσους καταλαμβάνειν, Χίον καὶ Κῶν καὶ Ῥόδον, καὶ Βυζαντίους κατάγειν τὰ πλοῖα, δῆλον ὅτι τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς εἰρήνης ἡσυχίαν πλειόνων ἀγαθῶν αἰτίαν εἶναι νομίζοντες ἢ τὸ προσκρούειν καὶ φιλονικεῖν περὶ τούτων. οὐκοῦν εὔηθες καὶ κομιδῇ σχέτλιον, πρὸς ἑκάστους καθʼ ἕνʼ οὕτω προσενηνεγμένους περὶ τῶν οἰκείων καὶ ἀναγκαιοτάτων, πρὸς πάντας περὶ τῆς ἐν Δελφοῖς σκιᾶς νυνὶ πολεμῆσαι.

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On the Peace

1. Cardia, largely inhabited by Athenian colonists, was included in the peace of 346 as an ally of Philip.

2. Idrieus, satrap of Caria , brother and successor of the famous Mausolus, who had helped the islands in their revolt from Athens in the Social War of 357—355.

3. Corn—ships from the Euxine forced to pay toll at Byzantium .

Demosthenes On the Peace 25

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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