The Ten Thousand
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Hellenica
The federal deliberative assembly of the Arcadian League, to which the envoy Antiochus delivers his skeptical report on the Persian King's court.
but Antiochus, because the Arcadian League was less regarded, did not accept the royal gifts, and reported back to the Ten Thousand that the King had bakers, and cooks, and wine-pourers, and doorkeepers in vast numbers, but as for men who could fight with Greeks, he said that though he sought diligently he could not see any.
The leaders, however, said that they were doing harm to the Arcadian League, and summoned their rulers before the Ten Thousand;
And now Lycomedes, upon learning that the Athenians were finding fault with their allies because, while they were themselves suffering many troubles on their account, none gave them any assistance in return, persuaded the Ten Thousand to negotiate for an alliance with the Athenians.
On the Embassy
The large Arcadian assembly before which Aeschines had spoken as ambassador.
But you find fault with my service as ambassador to Arcadia and my speech before the Ten Thousand there, and you say that I have changed sides—yourself more slave than freeman, all but branded as a runaway!
On the False Embassy
Public body at Megalopolis before whom Aeschines claimed to have spoken.
It was he who afterwards, on his return from Arcadia, gave a report of the fine long orations which he said he had delivered as your spokesman before the Ten Thousand at Megalopolis in reply to Philip’s champion Hieronymus, and he made a long story of the enormous harm which corrupt statesmen in the pay of Philip were doing not only to their own countries but to the whole of Greece.
Panegyricus
The Greek mercenary force that marched inland with Cyrus the Younger, survived his death and Persian treachery, and marched safely back to the coast.
Therefore it seems to me that in every quarter the Persians have clearly exposed their degeneracy;
But when he failed in this plot—for the soldiers not only stood together but bore their misfortune nobly,—then, as they set out on their journey home, he sent with them Tissaphernes and the Persian cavalry.
But after Cyrus had been killed, and all the people of Asia had joined forces, even under these favorable conditions they made such a disgraceful failure of the war as to leave for those who are in the habit of vaunting Persian valor not a word to say.