Philip's ambassadors

and at daybreak he came escorting the ambassadors into the theater, so that he was actually hissed for his unseemly flattery.

for Philocrates unobserved slipped this clause in among the provisions of his resolution, and Demosthenes put it to the vote, that The members of the synod of the allies do on this day give their oaths to the ambassadors from Philip.

Then it was that Demosthenes, hastening to get possession of the platform, and leaving no other man an opportunity to speak, said that the propositions of yesterday were utterly useless unless Philip’s ambassadors could be persuaded to assent to them.

then, after that, the motion about assigning the front seats at the Dionysia to Philip’s ambassadors.

secondly, he read the motion of which Demosthenes himself was author, to grant safe conduct to the herald and ambassadors from Philip;

And that utterly absurd story, whereat his colleagues covered their faces for shame, how he gave a dinner to the ambassadors of Philip;

But for myself, men of Athens, I wish first to touch upon the different points of his letter, and then to add my comments on the speeches of his ambassadors.

With regard to the amendment of the peace, Philip’s ambassadors conceded to us the right to amend it, and our amendment, universally admitted to be fair, was that each side should retain its own possessions.

Why, the ambassadors themselves, whom your resolution flatly contradicted, when you read them your answer and offered them hospitality, did not venture to come forward and say, You misrepresent us, men of Athens;

When the Thebans held their assembly, they introduced Philip’s ambassadors first, on the ground that they were in the position of allies.

When we reached Thebes we found ambassadors from Philip and from the Thebans and others of his allies already there, our friends panic-stricken, and his friends full of confidence.

It is also true that I entertained Philip’s ambassadors, and did the thing very handsomely;