Demosthenes, Philip’s Letter, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 5

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[5] Again, your general, Callias,¹ captured the cities on the Pagasaean Gulf, every one of them, though they were protected by treaty with you and were in alliance with me all merchants sailing to Macedonia he regarded as enemies and sold them into slavery. And for this you passed him a vote of thanks! So I am at a loss to say what difference it will make if you admit that you are at war with me, for when we were openly at variance, then too you used to send out privateers, enslave merchants trading with us, help my adversaries, and lay waste my territory.

Philip’s Letter. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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Philip’s Letter (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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ἐπιστολή [Φιλίππου] Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 5 focus

[5] Καλλίας τοίνυν ὁ παρʼ ὑμῶν στρατηγὸς τὰς μὲν πόλεις τὰς ἐν τῷ Παγασίτῃ κόλπῳ κατοικουμένας ἔλαβεν ἁπάσας, ὑμῖν μὲν ἐνόρκους, ἐμοὶ δὲ συμμαχίδας οὔσας, τοὺς δʼ εἰς Μακεδονίαν πλέοντας ἐπώλει πάντας πολεμίους κρίνων· καὶ διὰ ταῦθʼ ὑμεῖς ἐπῃνεῖτʼ αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ψηφίσμασιν. ὥστʼ ἔγωγʼ ἀπορῶ τί ποτʼ ἔσται καινότερον, ἐὰν ὁμολογήσητέ μοι πολεμεῖν· καὶ γὰρ ὅτε φανερῶς διεφερόμεθα, λῃστὰς ἐξεπέμπετε καὶ τοὺς πλέοντας ὡς ἡμᾶς ἐπωλεῖτε, τοῖς ἐναντίοις ἐβοηθεῖτε, τὴν χώραν μου κακῶς ἐποιεῖτε.

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Philip’s Letter

1. Of Chalcis in Euboea . Originally an ally of Philip, he changed sides and helped Phocion’s expedition in 341, which cleared Oreus and Eretria of tyrants. The captured cities, as allies of Philip, were included in the Peace of Philocrates (346).

Demosthenes Philip’s Letter 5

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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