Demosthenes, On the Chersonese, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 57

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[57] It is because they want the natural anger that you would feel at any sufferings in the war to be diverted against your wisest counsellors, so that you may bring them to trial instead of punishing Philip, and that they may themselves be the accusers instead of paying the penalty for their present wrong-doings. That is the meaning of their suggestion that there is a party among you that desires war, and that that is the question you now have to decide.¹

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

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On the Chersonese (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 τῶν ἐν Χερρονήσῳ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 57 focus

[57] ἐγὼ διδάξω· ὅτι τὴν ὀργὴν ἣν εἰκός ἐστι γενέσθαι παρʼ ὑμῶν, ἄν τι λυπῆσθε τῷ πολέμῳ, εἰς τοὺς ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν λέγοντας τὰ βέλτιστα τρέψαι βούλονται, ἵνα τούτους κρίνητε, μὴ Φίλιππον ἀμύνησθε, καὶ κατηγορῶσιν αὐτοί, μὴ δίκην δῶσιν ὧν ποιοῦσι νῦν. τοῦτʼ αὐτοῖς δύναται τὸ λέγειν ὡς ἄρα βούλονται πόλεμόν τινες ποιῆσαι παρʼ ὑμῖν, καὶ περὶ τούτου ἡ διαδικασία αὕτη ἐστίν.

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On the Chersonese

1. διαδικασία is a lawsuit between rival claimants to an estate, etc. The war-party and the peace-party are here rival claimants for the votes of the Athenians.

Demosthenes On the Chersonese 57

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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