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.

" asked Philip in astonishment.

"But far rather as Homer made the king of all the Greeks pray:

These things he said to his father, displaying his own cast of mind.

One of them, and the first, as I hear, he reckons as the time of our war with Philip over Amphipolis.

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.

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.

When Iphicrates had heard all this, he drove Pausanias out of Macedonia and preserved the dynasty for you.

And again I did not hesitate to complain of Philip himself, blaming him for having taken up in his turn the war against our state.

Now when we were by ourselves, our worthy colleague Demosthenes put on an exceedingly sour face and declared that I had ruined the city and the allies.

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

Of course, gentlemen, you all know that Macedonian, Philip.

And that is why men, in the desire for more, so often throw away what they already have.

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.

After Philip and the whole substance of this question, which is toward the end of the Gospel, they persevere in the same kind of discourse, by which Father and Son are distinguished in their own property.

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;

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.

interjected Philip.

Undoubtedly, said Philip;

What does this mean, Philip?

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;

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.

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.

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

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;

And I certainly wonder for what possible reason the Boeotian admiral should have given the copper to my father as security, if he owed a thousand drachmae to Philip.

secondly, that Philip demanded payment of the thousand drachmae here from Timotheus and not from the Boeotian admiral, and that Timotheus made payment and not the Boeotian admiral;

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.

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

It is worth while, however, to observe and consider how Philip stands today.

Do not forget that you can today choose whether you must fight there or Philip must fight here.

They are not accustomed to acknowledge a master, and Philip is by all accounts a particularly harsh one.