Orations: Greek oratorsP.F. Collier and son, 1900 - Speeches, addresses, etc |
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Page 314 - The favorable moments for enterprise, which fortune frequently offers to the careless against the vigilant, to them that will do nothing against those that discharge all their duty, could not be bought from orators or generals ; no more could mutual concord, nor distrust of tyrants and barbarians, nor any thing of the kind.
Page 102 - Firm in their valour, prodigal of life, Hades they chose the arbiter of strife ; That Greeks might ne'er to haughty victors bow, Nor thraldom's yoke, nor dire oppression know ; They fought, they bled, and on their country's breast (Such was the doom of heaven) these warriors rest. Gods never lack success, nor strive in vain, But man must suffer what the fates ordain.
Page 55 - ... their own expense arm the young men with eight hundred shields: It hath been resolved by the council and people to crown Charidemus and Diotimus with a golden crown, and to proclaim it at the great Panathenaic festival, during the gymnastic contest, and at the Dionysian festival, at the exhibition of the new tragedies: the proclamation to be given in charge to the judges, the presidents, and the prize-masters.
Page 245 - Athens, you should keep in hand some force that will incessantly make war and annoy him : none of your ten or twenty thousand mercenaries, not your forces on paper, but one that shall belong to the state, and, whether you appoint one or more generals, or this or that man or any other, shall obey and follow him. Subsistence too I require for it. What the force shall be, how large, from what source maintained, how rendered efficient, I will show you, stating every particular.
Page 311 - ... and alliance; we look unconcernedly on the man's growing power, each resolving, methinks, to enjoy the interval that another is destroyed in, not caring or striving for the salvation of Greece: for none can be ignorant that Philip, like some course or attack of fever or other disease, is coming even on those that yet seem very far removed. And you must be sensible that whatever wrong the Greeks sustained from Lacedaemonians or from us was at least inflicted by genuine people of Greece; and it...
Page 236 - Athenians, what a summary contrast may be drawn between the doings in our olden time and in yours. It is a tale brief and familiar to all ; for the examples by which you may still be happy are found not abroad, men of Athens, but at home.
Page 72 - if we determine on the present occasion to remember any unkindness which the Thebans have done us and to regard them in the character of enemies with distrust, in the first place we shall be doing just what Philip would desire; in the next place I fear his present adversaries embracing his friendship and all Philippising with one consent, they will both march against Attica.
Page 93 - ... conceive she has had that share of the general fortune which fell to our lot. As to my fortune (personally speaking) or that of any individual among us, it should, as I conceive, be judged of in connection with personal matters. Such is my opinion upon the subject of fortune, a right and just one, as it appears to me, and I think you will agree wit A it. ^Eschines says that my individual fortune is paramount to that of the commonwealth, the small and mean to the good and great. How can •this...
Page 101 - You were hired to ruin the interests of your countrymen : and yet, though you have been caught yourself in open treason, and informed against yourself after the fact, you revile and reproach me for things which you will find any man is chargeable with sooner than I.
Page 21 - I shall appear to be without defence against his charges, without proof of my claims to honor; whereas, if I proceed to give an account of my conduct and measures, I shall be forced to speak frequently of myself. I will endeavor then to do so with all becoming modesty...