The sources of On the False Embassy

1. Aeschines 4 refuted 4 citations · 10 passages

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   Aeschines' own prior speech is repeatedly reported as an authority that condemns him.

   For surely the principles which you, Aeschines, laid down when you prosecuted Timarchus ought to have equal weight for others against you.

2. Antigone Sophocles 1 endorsed 1 citation · 3 passages

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   Demosthenes praises the lines and applies their political lesson to the case.

   But Sophocles’ Antigone was frequently acted by Theodorus, and also by Aristodemus;

3. Demosthenes 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages

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   A decree authored by Demosthenes is cited and read as evidence for his foresight.

   Finding that you had got to the end of the regular Assemblies, and that there was no meeting left, and observing that the envoys were still wasting time at Athens instead of starting at once, I proposed a decree as a member of the Council, to which the Assembly had given authority, directing the envoys to sail immediately, and the general Proxenus to convey them to any place in which he should asc …

4. Euripides 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages

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   The passage names the work and author while arguing the quotation applies to Aeschines.

   Well, Aeschines, your iambics shall now serve my turn for an observation about you.

5. Philip's letter Philip II of Macedon 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   The letter is presented as evidence supporting Demosthenes' factual claims.

   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.

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on the false embassy 47 sources

Affidavit of refusal and illness record · Athenian law imposing death for unlawful embassy conduct · Athenian laws and decrees of the people and Council · Athenian statutory commination · Convention between Philip and the Phocians · Council resolution on the embassy report · Decree concerning the Olynthians · Decree condemning ambassadors · Decree directing administration of the oath · Decree of Callisthenes · Decree of Diophantus · Decree of Philocrates · Decree of Timarchus against arms for Philip · Decree of the Assembly · Decree proposed by Eubulus · Decree, records, and depositions concerning Aeschines' embassy · Decrees of Miltiades and Themistocles · Decrees of the Amphictyonic Council · Deposition · Deposition concerning the embassy · Deposition of Apollophanes and others · Deposition on Philip's answer to Eucleides · Diophantus' report about the Olynthian woman · Evidence of the Olynthian witnesses · Excerpt from Philip's first letter about future benefits · House of Thyestes · Letter from Philip to Athens · Letters of Philip · Oaths to the Thessalians and Thebans · Oracles warning Athens · Peace and alliance with Philip · Peace negotiated by Callias · Philip's letter defending the envoys' delay · Philip's two letters of summons · Philocrates' decree on peace, alliance, and Phocis · Philocrates' resolution · Public inscription against Arthmius · Solon's elegiac poem on Salamis · Solon's elegiacs on civic corruption and law · Statutory investigation of public conduct · Terms of the peace with Philip · Treaty of Friendship between the Athenians and the Phocians · Trojan War tradition · Verses on Rumor · Witness evidence concerning the Hellespont opportunity · Witnesses on Phryno's son sent to Philip · Youth oath in the temple of Aglaurus