Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator), 162

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[162] To prove, moreover, that we should have caught Philip at the Hellespont , if my advice had been taken and your directions obeyed in the terms of the decrees, call the witnesses who were there present.

(Evidence is given)

Now read the other deposition testifying to the answer made by Philip to Eucleides¹ here, who arrived later.

(The Deposition is read)

On the False Embassy. Demosthenes. Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1926.

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Current edition Perseus

On the Embassy (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. II: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione, XVIII, XIX. Vince, C. A. and Vince, J. H., translators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926 (1939 reprint).)

Editions (1)

περὶ τῆς παραπρεσβείας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 162 focus

[162] καὶ μὴν ὅτι τὸν Φίλιππον ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ κατελάβομεν ἄν, εἴ τις ἐπείθετό μοι καὶ τὰ προστεταγμένʼ ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ἐποίει κατὰ τὰ ψηφίσματα, κάλει τοὺς ἐκεῖ παρόντας μάρτυρας.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΣ.

λέγε δὴ καὶ τὴν ἑτέραν μαρτυρίαν, ἃ πρὸς Εὐκλείδην ὕστερον ἐλθόντα τουτονὶ ἀπεκρίνατο Φίλιππος.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.

Notes on the current edition

On the False Embassy

1. Eucleides: sent to protest against Philip’s invasion of the dominions of Cersobleptes.

Demosthenes On the False Embassy 162

Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator)