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<A FIELDING>
<T MDEMOSTHENES>
<P 205><L 1>
THE FIRST OLYNTHIAC OF DEMOSTHENES
THE ARGUMENT
OLYNTHUS WAS A POWERFUL FREE CITY OF THRACE, ON THE CONFINES OF
MACEDONIA. BY CERTAIN ALLURING OFFERS, PHILIP HAD TEMPTED THEM
INTO AN ALLIANCE WITH HIM, THE TERMS OF WHICH WERE A JOINT WAR
AGAINST THE ATHENIANS, AND IF A PEACE, A JOINT PEACE. THE OLYNTHIANS,
SOME TIME AFTER, BECOMING JEALOUS OF HIS GROWING POWER,
DETACH THEMSELVES FROM HIS ALLIANCE, AND MAKE A SEPARATE PEACE
WITH THE ATHENIANS. PHILIP, EXCLAIMING AGAINST THIS, AS A BREACH
OF THEIR FORMER TREATY, AND GLAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY, WHICH HE HAD
LONG BEEN SEEKING, IMMEDIATELY DECLARES WAR AGAINST THEM, AND
BESIEGES THEIR CITY. UPON THIS, THEY DISPATCH AN EMBASSY TO ATHENS,
FOR SUCCOUR. THE SUBJECT OF THIS EMBASSY COMING TO BE DEBATED
AMONG THE ATHENIANS, DEMOSTHENES GIVES HIS SENTIMENTS IN THE
FOLLOWING ORATION.
NO TREASURES, O ATHENIANS, CAN, I AM CONFIDENT, BE SO DESIRABLE
IN YOUR EYES, AS TO DISCOVER WHAT IS M . . .
