Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 27

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[27] and when Pausanias was coming back to contend for the throne,¹ an exile then, but favoured by opportunity and the support of many of the people, and bringing a Greek force with him, and when he had already seized Anthemon, Therma , Strepsa, and certain other places, at a time when the Macedonians were not united, but most of them favoured Pausanias: at this crisis the Athenians elected Iphicrates as their general to go against Amphipolis —for at that time the people of Amphipolis were holding their city themselves and enjoying the products of the land.

On the Embassy. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.

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[27] Παυσανίου δʼ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν¹ κατιόντος, φυγάδος μὲν ὄντος, τῷ καιρῷ δʼ ἰσχύοντος, πολλῶν δʼ αὐτῷ συμπραττόντων, ἔχοντος δὲ Ἑλληνικὴν δύναμιν, εἰληφότος δὲ Ἀνθεμοῦντα καὶ Θέρμαν καὶ Στρέψαν καὶ ἄλλʼ ἄττα χωρία, Μακεδόνων δὲ οὐχ ὁμονοούντων, ἀλλὰ τῶν πλείστων τὰ Παυσανίου φρονούντων, ἐπὶ τῶν καιρῶν τούτων ἐχειροτόνησαν Ἀθηναῖοι στρατηγὸν ἐπʼ Ἀμφίπολιν Ἰφικράτην, Ἀμφιπολιτῶν αὐτῶν ἐχόντων τότε τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὴν χώραν καρπουμένων.

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1. Amyntas, king of Macedonia , left three sons, Alexander, Perdiccas, and Philip. Alexander succeeded his father, but after a short reign he was assassinated. His mother Eurydice with her paramour Ptolemaeus took the throne. Her power was threatened by Pausanias, a member of a rival princely house.

Aeschines On the Embassy 27

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