Demosthenes On the False Embassy 166

ed. Samuel Henry Butcher

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[166] ὃν τοίνυν χρόνον ἦμεν ἐκεῖ καὶ καθήμεθʼ ἐν Πέλλῃ, σκέψασθε τί πράττειν ἕκαστος ἡμῶν προείλετο. ἐγὼ μὲν τοίνυν τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους ἀνασῴζειν καὶ ζητεῖν, καὶ παρʼ ἐμαυτοῦ τε χρήματʼ ἀναλίσκειν καὶ Φίλιππον ἀξιοῦν, ὧν ἡμῖν ἐδίδου ξενίων, τούτους λύσασθαι· οὗτος δὲ αὐτίκʼ ἀκούσεσθε τί ποιῶν διετέλεσεν. τί οὖν ἦν τοῦτο τὸ κοινῇ χρήμαθʼ ἡμῖν τὸν Φίλιππον διδόναι;

On the False Embassy. Demosthenes. ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Oxford. 1903.

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

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On the Embassy Perseus (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).) — 166 focus

[166] Take next the period of our loitering at Pella , and compare the employments which we severally chose for ourselves. Mine was to seek out and rescue the captives, spending money of my own, and asking Philip to apply to their ransom the money he was spending on hospitable gifts for us. But what Aeschines constantly tried to effect, you shall hear in a moment. What then was it? It was that Philip should give us a lump sum as a collective present.

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