Embassy to Philip

and that he will lug in my speeches, and find fault with the peace which was brought about through Philocrates and myself, until he shall call out such bursts of applause from the jurors that I will not even face him in the court-room to defend myself when I render account of my service on the embassy, but will consider myself lucky if I get off with a moderate fine instead of being punished with death.

For, under the impression that he is hurting me with reference to the accounting which I am about to render for my service on the embassy, he says that when the other day he himself was describing the boy Alexander, telling how at a certain banquet of ours he played the cithara, reciting certain passages in which there were thrusts at another boy, and when he reported to the senate what he himself …

And they put me on trial, not as an ambassador, but as a surety for Philip and the peace;

and we have not come back from the embassy changed men, but the same men that you yourselves sent out.

Those who were invited and were present at the banquet, including the ambassadors from other Hellenic states, were not less than two hundred.

yet I do say that we ought to make peace.

that he disobeyed all your instructions when on embassy;

The advice of ambassadors you regard as the more trustworthy because it is given by men who presumably understand their own mission.