Aeschines

Then, because I objected to their acts, not only thinking them dishonorable but fearing that I might share the ruin they were bringing on themselves, our chivalrous friend accused me of promising to Philip that I would overthrow the Athenian democracy, while all the time he was himself constantly holding private communications with Philip.

He concocted a plausible speech about the legendary origin of the consecration of the Cirrhaean territory, and by this narration induced the commissioners, men unversed in oratory and unsuspicious of consequences, to vote for a tour of survey of the land which the Amphissians said they were cultivating because it belonged to them, while Aeschines accused them of intruding on consecrated ground.

And he asserts that on the journey I urged him to join me in guarding against the beast—meaning Philocrates.

For I learn that Demosthenes will say that the city has been greatly benefited by him, but damaged by me and he will bring up against me Philip and Alexander, and the charges connected with them.

1 When all were offering Socrates many gifts, each according to his means, Aeschines, a poor disciple, said:

And finally—so I am told—in an attempt to raise a laugh and start silly talk among you, he says he is going to exhibit all the erotic poems I have ever addressed to one person or another, and he promises to call witnesses to certain quarrels and pommellings in which I have been involved in consequence of this habit.

11] Aeschines the Athenian, a most eloquent man, when as a young man he had acted tragedies, took up public affairs;

And so Aeschines inveighs against Demosthenes because he sacrificed victims on the seventh day after his daughter's death.

Only I would not counsel you to read these for the most part, but Hyperides rather and Aeschines.

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.