Philip's letter
object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the letter · Letters of Philip · letter which he has sent · letters · such a letter · the letter that we have brought from Philip
spoken of as
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On the False Embassy (Greek)
(The Letters of Philip are read)
in the texts
On the Embassy
A written letter from Philip brought back by the embassy and read before the Assembly as proof of the results of the negotiations.
Now, if you please, take the letter that we have brought from Philip.
Answer to Philip’s Letter
The written communication from Philip to Athens that triggers the response.
Yet what more startling news could there be than that a Macedonian should insult Athenians, daring to send us such a letter as you have heard read a moment ago.
for ever since he handed Halus over to the Pharsalians, settled the Phocian question, and subdued the whole of Thrace, coining false excuses and inventing hollow pretexts, he has been all the time practically at war with Athens, though it is only now that he confesses it openly in the letter which he has sent.
On the False Embassy
Letters attributed to Philip and read as evidence in court.
(The Letters of Philip are read)
I will only read to you Philip’s letters, and remind you of the several occasions of your deception, to show how the Benefactor has forfeited by his beguilements that frigid and nauseating title.
However, to prove the truth of my statements, read first the decree giving directions for the administration of the oath, then Philip’s letter, and then the decree of Philocrates, and the decree of the Assembly.