Philip

It is observed in one of the speeches of Aeschines, that Philip, though at war with the Amphipolitans, could not lawfully take possession of Amphipolis, as a conquest, it being a city, which belonged to the Athenians.

Upon this ground, the Athenians wished to consider Philip, as restoring, and not giving them Halonesus, of which they had been robbed by pirates, from whom he had taken it again.

Thus, as we are informed by Plutarch, when Philip had overrun Thessaly, destroying and plundering the whole country, Flaminius ordered his troops to march in a regular manner, as through a ceded country which had become their own.

For Alexander happened already to be campaigning together with his father, though Philip tried to prevent it;

Then Philip asked him again, "But, Alexander, admiring Homer so intensely as you do, how is it that you despise his wisdom?

" Upon this Philip asked, "But you, Alexander—would you choose to have been Agamemnon, or Achilles, or one of those heroes, rather than Homer?

Philocrates made a motion that we permit Philip to send to us a herald and ambassadors to treat concerning peace.

After this, fellow citizens, Philip’s ambassadors arrived but yours were absent, summoning the Greeks against Philip.

In order, he says, that if Philip’s ambassadors shall by that time have arrived, the people may most speedily deliberate on their relations with Philip.

And even if they make use of the saying of the Lord to Philip, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but follow me," let them consider this:

For Peter and Philip begot children, and Philip even gave his daughters to husbands.

for not all those who are saved made the confession through voice and so departed, among whom were Matthew, Philip, Thomas, Levi, and many others.

how the ambassadors from Euboea, after they had discussed with our assembly the question of our making peace with them, told us that Philip also had asked them to report to you that he wished to come to terms and be at peace with you.

But when Philip turned to expressions of friendship, and the bottom dropped out of the slander which this Demosthenes had previously uttered against me before our fellow ambassadors, that I was going to be the cause of disagreement and war, then indeed it was plain to see that he was altogether beside himself, so that even when we were invited to dinner he behaved with shameful rudeness.

For shortly after the death of Amyntas, and of Alexander, the eldest of the brothers, while Perdiccas and Philip were still children, when their mother Eurydice had been betrayed by those who professed to be their friends, and when Pausanias was coming back to contend for the throne, an exile then, but favoured by opportunity and the support of many of the people, and bringing a Greek force with h …

In fact, when Philip came to Maroneia, he sent Apollonides to him, and gave pledges both to him and to Pammenes;

Nevertheless, although so long as they saw that he was not too powerful to be trusted, they were his allies and fought us on his account, when they found that his strength had grown too great for their confidence, they did not make a decree that whosoever should kill any man who had helped to consolidate Philip’s power should be liable to seizure in the country of their allies.

and, remembering also that, when Philip was besieging Amphipolis, he pretended to be doing so in order to hand the place over to you, but that, when he had got it, he annexed Potidaea into the bargain, you will sh to have the same sort of assurance that, according to the story, Philocrates, son of Ephialtes, once opposed to the Lacedaemonians.

although of men who are mentioned in history in all time, Philip had the most uncanny ability of all, whether through personal contact to persuade men to pay heed to his wishes or to corrupt with bribes the notable men in every one of the Greek cities, I was the only man who did not fall a victim to either of these methods, a fact that brings to you also cause for pride, and although I met Philip …

I am amazed if none of you thinks that it is a disgraceful thing for the people of Athens, who are supposed to be superior to all men in understanding and culture and have also maintained here for the unfortunate a common refuge in all ages, to show themselves less considerate than Philip, who, although naturally subject to no correction, nursed as he was, in licence, still thought that at the mom …

O yes, by Zeus, all will agree that you are faring better than these, but worse, they declare, than the Thessalians, Argives and Arcadians, or certain others, who had the luck to be in alliance with Philip.

’s claim, arising from the fact that all the sons of Philip the Fair had left daughters, but it may be shown from the law-books of the time that, even in the inheritance of private property, the rules of succession which were to prevail under such circumstances were still uncertain.

Now the Salic law, like the Capetian House, is still in existence, and we can put our finger on the very passage which was supposed to confer on Philip of Valois his title to the French throne.

Go on now, and tell me of Alexander and Philip and Demetrius of Phalerum.

and set before your eyes whole dramas and scenes of the same kind, all that you have known from your own experience or from the older histories — as the whole court of Hadrian, the whole court of Antoninus, the whole court of Philip, of Alexander, of Croesus;

For just as in the old writings they hold nothing else than, "I am God, and there is no other besides me," so in the Gospel they keep to the Lord's answer to Philip, "I and the Father are one," and, "He who has seen me, sees the Father also," and, "I am in the Father, and the Father in me.

" And we have now come to Philip, who, roused by the hope of seeing the Father, and not understanding how he had heard that the Father was seen, "Show us the Father," he says, "and it suffices us.

On account of one saying of Philip and the Lord's answer to him, we seem to have run through John's Gospel — lest one saying should subvert so many things plainly pronounced both before and after, and to be interpreted according to all the rest rather than against them all, even against its own sense.

and having gone to Beroea, and thence turned again [to the coast], (after first attempting the place without taking it,) they continued their march by land to Potidaea, with three thousand heavy-armed of their own, and many of the allies besides, and six hundred horse of the Macedonians with Philip and Pausanias.

He became such, because the Athenians had made an alliance with his brother Philip and Derdas, when acting together against him.

and the generals thinking it impossible with their present force to carry on war both with Philip and the revolted towns, turned their attention to Macedonia, the object for which they were first sent out;

As for you, said Lycon, addressing Philip, it is obvious that your pride is in your jesting.

And my pride is better founded, I think, replied Philip, than that of Callippides, the actor, who is consumed with vanity because he can fill the seats with audiences that weep.

Come, said Philip, let me have some flute music, so that I may dance too.

Now I naturally have had no conversation with Alexander, because of his youth, but Philip I do praise now because of his auspicious words, and if in what he does toward us in the future he shall fulfil the promise of what he now says, he will make praise of him a safe and easy thing.

Philip will be largely in evidence, and the name of Philip’ s son Alexander is going to be mixed up in it.

I carried the jurors off bodily from the charges brought against Timarchus, and set them on the accuser, and Philip, and the Phocians, and I suspended such terrors before the eyes of the hearers that the defendant began to be the accuser, and the accuser to be on trial;

« Arise, go to the south along such-and-such a road » (4), and many things like this.

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Or was Philip warned to shun these little four-horse teams engraved on a sword-hilt?

Read the panegyrics, Torquatus — not of those who were praised by Homer, not of Cyrus, not of Agesilaus, not of Aristides or Themistocles, not of Philip or Alexander;

But afterward both Philip, who planned it, and Alexander, who waged it, brought this cause of war against the Persians, that he wished to punish them for the shrines of Greece;

Did the Lacedaemonians, when Philip threatened them by letter that he would hinder all that they should attempt, ask whether he would hinder them even from dying?

and Philip is neither friend nor enemy, so that this motive, too, cannot be justly charged against them.

To pass over other occasions, seven times, Aristogeiton, have you indicted me, when you had taken the pay of Philip’s agents, and twice you accused me at my audit.

In addition to these, written affidavits were submitted by Euphiletus, son of Damotimus, of Aphidnae, Hippias, son of Timoxenus, of Thymaetadae, Sostratus, son of Philip, of Histiaea, Archenomides, son of Strato, of Thria.

In addition to these, written affidavits were submitted by Archiades, son of Mnesonidas,of Acharnae, Sostratus, son of Philip, of Histiaea, Eumarichus, son of Euboeus, of Histiaea, Philtiades, son of Ctesias, of Xypetê, and Dionysius, son of Democratides, of Cholleidae.

Suppose at the present day a party of those in power at Pydna or Potidaea or any of those other places which are subject to Philip and hostile to you— just as Thasos and Byzantium then were friendly to the Lacedaemonians and estranged from you—promised to hand them over to you in return for the same rewards that you gave to Ecphantus of Thasos and Archebius of Byzantium;

The men who betrayed Pydna and the other places to Philip—what prompted them to injure us?

Under stress of necessity, then, at that time he borrowed the thousand drachmae from Antiphanes, who sailed with Philip, the shipowner, as his treasurer, and gave them to the admiral of the Boeotian fleet.

Well, then, when he was on the point of sailing home for his trial, the defendant, while still in Calaureia, borrowed from Antiphanes of Lamptrae, who sailed with Philip the shipowner as his treasurer, the sum of one thousand drachmae to distribute among the Boeotian trierarchs, that they might remain with the fleet until his trial should come off, for fear lest, if the Boeotian fleet should first …

I shall also call before you Antiphanes, who lent the sum of one thousand drachmae to the defendant in Calaureia, and who was present when Philip received payment of the money from my father here in Athens.

This is just what happened when we heard that Philip was in the Hellespont and again when the pirate triremes put in at Marathon.