Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 72

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[72] and instead of respect and the hegemony of Hellas , Athens had a name that stank like a nest of Myonnesian¹ pirates. And Philip from his base in Macedonia was no longer contending with us for Amphipolis , but already for Lemnos , Imbros, and Scyros, our own possessions, while our citizens were abandoning the Chersonese , the undisputed property of Athens . And the special meetings of the assembly which you were forced to hold, in fear and tumult, were more in number than the regular meetings.

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

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On the Embassy (English) (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).)

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[72] ἀντὶ δὲ ἀξιώματος καὶ τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἡγεμονίας, ἡ πόλις ἡμῶν τῆς¹ Μυοννήσου καὶ τῆς τῶν λῃστῶν δόξης ἀνεπίμπλατο· Φίλιππος δὲ ὁρμηθεὶς ἐκ Μακεδονίας, οὐκέθʼ ὑπὲρ Ἀμφιπόλεως πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἠγωνίζετο, ἀλλʼ ἤδη περὶ Λήμνου καὶ Ἴμβρου καὶ Σκύρου, τῶν ἡμετέρων κτημάτων· ἐξέλειπον² δὲ Χερρόνησον ἡμῶν οἱ πολῖται, τὴν οὖσαν ὁμολογουμένως Ἀθηναίων· πλείους δὲ ἐκκλησίας συγκλήτους ἠναγκάζεσθε ἐκκλησιάζειν μετὰ φόβου καὶ θορύβου, ἢ τὰς τεταγμένας ἐκ τῶν νόμων·

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1. Μυοννήσος, Mouse-island, was a little island off the coast of Thessaly , notorious as a nest of pirates.

Aeschines On the Embassy 72

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