Demosthenes, Answer to Philip’s Letter, ed. Samuel Henry Butcher, 1

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[1] ὅτι μέν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, Φίλιππος οὐκ ἐποιήσατο τὴν εἰρήνην πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἀλλʼ ἀνεβάλετο τὸν πόλεμον, πᾶσιν ὑμῖν φανερὸν γέγονεν· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ Φαρσαλίοις Ἅλον παρέδωκε καὶ τὰ περὶ Φωκέας διῳκήσατο καὶ τὴν Θρᾴκην κατεστρέψατο πᾶσαν, αἰτίας οὐκ οὔσας πλασάμενος καὶ προφάσεις ἀδίκους ἐξευρὼν τῷ μὲν ἔργῳ πάλαι πολεμεῖ πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, τῷ δὲ λόγῳ νῦν ὁμολογεῖ διὰ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς ἧς ἔπεμψεν·

Answer to Philip’s Letter. Demosthenes. ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Oxford. 1903.

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πρὸς τὴν ἐπιστολήν τὴν Φιλίππου (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.)

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Answer to Philip’s Letter Perseus (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).) — 1 focus

[1] It must now be clear to all of you, Athenians, that Philip never concluded a peace with you, but only postponed the war; for ever since he handed Halus¹ over to the Pharsalians, settled the Phocian question, and subdued the whole of Thrace , coining false excuses and inventing hollow pretexts, he has been all the time practically at war with Athens , though it is only now that he confesses it openly in the letter which he has sent.

Demosthenes Answer to Philip’s Letter 1

ed. Samuel Henry Butcher

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