pezés: but, as I ude i v not be good dhe frys or for me. Wherefore I release you the vessels. I had brought home to port: and for the future. If ye w bot allow your leaders so take a sinister course, but make them feel your displeasure, I also co my part will endeavour to keep the peace. Farewell

You do not find the name of Demosthenes in this letter; there is nothing like a reflection on me. Why, having reflected upon others, does he not even mention my name? Because he could not have reflected upon me without calling attention to his own misdoings; for while he meditated them, I hung upon his movements, ready to counteract and baffle them at every step. When first he crept into the Peloponnese, I carried a decree to send the embassy to that country. When he laid hands upon Eubœa, I moved and carried the Eubœan embassy: then, afterwards, I put on foot, not an embassy but an expedition to Oreus; and, beyond that, the expedition to Eretria, when he had established tyrants in those towns. At a subsequent period it was I who caused the departure of those reinforcements to which the Chersonese, Byzantium, and all our allies owed their safety. And what was the result to you? Acclamations of praise—fervid acknowledgments of gratitude-formal votes of thanks— the solemn presentation of crowns—every instance and ̧ token of the highest honour. And the intended victims of injustice, in such cases as they followed your lead and took your advice, found that it landed them in safety. Those who had set it at nought were compelled, by the fulfilment of all your predictions, to acknowledge not only your benevolent intentions, but also your prescient foresight. And what Philistides would have given to retain Oreus, what Clitarchus to retain Eretria, and what Philip to have those places as a

base of attack upon you, what he would have given to have none of his actions called in question, and none of his iniquities exposed, is what no one can pretend to be ignorant of. You least of all; for the ambassadors sent at that time from Clitarchus and Philistides lodged in your house, and you introduced and vouched for them in society. They were your friends. The State quickly discovered that they neither meant, nor spoke, nor acted for our good, and drove them with ignominy away. Yet were they your friends. So all their attempts were frustrated.-You fountain of scurrility, who say of me that I am silent so long as I have money in my pocket and noisy when it is gone. That is not your case, however, for You clamour even when full, and, as for ceasing, never, unless this tribunal puts the gag on you to-day.- Well, after a crown had been decreed me by the People, and the proposal of Aristonicus was conveyed in the very syllables of Ctesiphon, and the crown had been proclaimed in the theatre (the second proclamation made in my honour), Eschines, who was present, offered no opposition, and never afterwards indicted the proposer. Read the Decree.

In the archonship of Charondas, son of Hegemon, on the twenty-fifth of Gamelion, in the presidency of the Leontian tribe, on the motion of Aristonicus of Phrearrii:

Whereas Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes of Pæania, hath rendered many and great services to the Athenian People and to many of their allies, both in time past, and now hath aided them by his decrees, and hath liberated some of those in the Euboean cities, and hath never failed in fidelity to the Athenian People, nor to do or say whatever may advantage Athens, or the rest of Greece: It is resolved, by the Senate and People of Athens, that public honours be paid to Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, and that he shall be crowned with a golden crown at the great festival of Dionysus, at the first representation of tragedies. The pro

clamation shall be under the direction of the presiding tribe and the prize-masters. On the motion of Aristonicus of Phrearrii.

Did anyone present ever hear of any disgrace incurred by the State in consequence of this vote-of any laughter and contempt? These, says Eschines, will be the consequence if I receive this crown.

It is when the matter is fresh in our recollections that honourable conduct meets its just reward in public favour, and its opposite in punishment. What I met with on that day was public honour; not punishment or blame. Thus I have proved that, up to that time, I was confessedly acknowledged to have acted in the best interests of the State, by my having no rival in legislation, by the fulfilment of all the objects of my decrees, by the honours conferred on the State, myself, and all of us as their consequence; by the solemn thanksgivings and processions decreed by you to Heaven in recognition of their beneficial effect.

But when Philip had been driven from Eubœa; by your arms it is true, but by my counsel and measures -aye, it was so, although it chokes You to admit ithe set about to find some other stronghold whence to attack us. And seeing that we, more than any other nation, consume imported corn, he conceives the idea of making himself master of the corn trade: he passes towards Thrace, and calls upon his allies the Byzantines to join him in his war upon us. When they refused, alleging, and with truth, that that was not one of the objects of the alliance, he made a trench, set up engines, and invested the town. What it became you to do on this state of things I need not enquire. It is too clear. But who helped and saved Byzantium? Who prevented the Hellespont being converted into hostile territory at that time? You, men of Athens:

-by that I mean the State. Who, by speech and measures and conduct, unsparingly placed himself at the service of the State? I. The amount of benefit which we all derived from this is not a matter of argument but experience; for, during all the time of the war, which commenced from that date, independently of the credit attending it, we had all the necessaries of life in greater abundance, and at a cheaper rate, than we have in the now existing peace, which these brave politicians treasure and cherish to their country's loss, but with some good prospect in store for themselves as they believe, I trust only to be disappointed. No! May it be their fate rather to receive the blessings you ask, than to inflict on you the curses they ask!

I now call for the decrees made by the Byzantines and the Perinthians, wherein they bestowed crowns upon the city; and also for the Chersonesians' decree of Crowns:

In the wardenship of Bosporicus, Damagetus, having obtained leave to speak, moved in the Assembly:

Whereas the People of Athens hath never failed in times past in friendship to the Byzantians, and their allies and kinsmen the Perinthians, and hath done them many and great services; and in the present hour of need, when Philip advanced his forces against the country and the city to overthrow the Byzantians and the Perinthians, burning and laying waste the country, the People of Athens came to our aid with 120 vessels, provisions, and arms, and armed men, and delivered us from great perils, and secured our ancient constitution, our laws and sepulchres: therefore it hath been resolved by the Peoples of Byzantium and Perinthus, to give to the Athenians the right of intermarriage, the right to citizenship, the right to buy houses and land, the right to the first seats at the games; the right to enter the Senate and the Assembly immediately after the sacrifices; immunity from the public services to such as choose to abide in the city moreover, there shall be erected on the Bosphorus three statues of sixteen cubits, exhibiting the people of

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Lone to bermet the enactment of this measure foster and impartiality. Read the measure for ma prosecuted; then the Seneduie :

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Let the therarchs be assigned sixteen to me galley, as they x grossed in companies from twenty-five years old to forty. The here to be the same m ail.

Now sompare my Schedule:

Let the therarchs be chosen, one to each vessel, according to their property on valuation, taking ten talents as the qualification for one trireme. If the valuation be higher, the Jani te fups 21so as high as three vessels and a tender. Let The impost be on the same scale for those whose property is below ten talenta; such persons to be grouped together.