Aeschines, On the Embassy, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 136

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[136] ἀλλʼ οὗτος μόνος τὸ συμβησόμενον ἠγνόει; ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτοὶ δημοσίᾳ πῶς διέκεισθε; οὐ πάντες προσεδοκᾶτε Φίλιππον ταπεινώσειν Θηβαίους, ὁρῶντά τʼ¹ αὐτῶν τὴν θρασύτητα, καὶ τῷ² μὴ βούλεσθαι δύναμιν ἀνθρώπων ἀπίστων ἐπαυξῆσαι;³ Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ οὐ μεθʼ ἡμῶν τἀναντία Θηβαίοις ἐπρέσβευον, καὶ τελευτῶντες προσέκρουον φανερῶς ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ καὶ διηπειλοῦντο;⁴ αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἠπόρουν καὶ ἐφοβοῦντο οἱ τῶν Θηβαίων πρέσβεις; Θετταλοὶ δὲ οὐ κατεγέλων τῶν ἄλλων, ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν φάσκοντες τὴν στρατείαν εἶναι;

On the Embassy. Aeschines. ed. Charles Darwin Adams. London. 1919.

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Περὶ τῆς παραπρεσβείας (Greek) (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).)

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[136] But was Phalaecus the only one who failed to discern what the outcome was going to be? How stood public opinion here? Were you not yourselves all expecting that Philip was going to humble the Thebans, when he saw their audacity, and because he was unwilling to increase the power of men whom he could not trust? And did not the Lacedaemonians take part with us in the negotiations against the Thebans, and did they not finally come into open collision with them in Macedonia and threaten them? Were not the Theban ambassadors themselves perplexed and alarmed? And did not the Thessalians laugh at all the rest and say that the expedition was for their own benefit?

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1. τ’ added by Dobree.

2. τῷ H. Wolf: τὸ MSS.

3. ἐπαυξῆσαι Sauppe: ἐπασκῆσαι MSS.

4. διηπειλοῦντο Cobet: διηπείλουν MSS. After διηπείλουν the MSS. have τοῖς τῶν Θηβαίων πρέσβεσιν, which Blass brackets.

Aeschines On the Embassy 136

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