War between Philip and Athens
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
war · active hostilities · at war with me · declaration of war · late war · make war on me · settle the dispute by arms
in the texts
Answer to Philip’s Letter
The armed conflict or renewed state of war between Philip and Athens.
Why, then, was he more successful than we in the late war?
It must now be clear to all of you, Athenians, that Philip never concluded a peace with you, but only postponed the war;
I shall, however, try to prove to you that you must not quail before his power nor offer a half-hearted resistance, but must enter the war with an unsparing provision of men, money, and ships—in a word, with all your resources.
Philip’s Letter
The actual or threatened armed conflict between Philip and Athens, contrasted with arbitration and peace.
Yet consider which is the more honorable—to settle the dispute by arms or by arguments, to be yourselves the umpires or to win the verdict from others.
for, before the king reduced Egypt and Phoenicia, you passed a decree calling on me to make common cause with the rest of the Greeks against him, in case he attempted to interfere with us.
So I am at a loss to say what difference it will make if you admit that you are at war with me, for when we were openly at variance, then too you used to send out privateers, enslave merchants trading with us, help my adversaries, and lay waste my territory.