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The History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King of Macedon
The History of the Life and Reign of Philip King of Macedon Author:Thomas Leland Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Book Hi. minister at Athens ; but this clause might possibly have been understood of those states only whose representatives were then present; for it appears, f... more »rom several particulars in those orations of the two contending orators, where these transactions are discussed, that a time must have been allowed for the others to accede. And now Demosthenes proposed, and the as- Demost.de semblv agreed to, the following resolution ; Pel Corona. f ri ] J sect. 9. " Whereas Philip, by his ambassadors sent '' to Athens, in order to treat about a peace, " has agreed to, and concluded, terms of ac- " commodation ; it is Resolved by the Senate " and People of Athens, in order to bring the " peace to an issue, which hath been settled in " a former assembly, that five ambassadors be t' chosen from the community of Athens. That " the ambassadors, thus chosen, shall depart, " and without delay, repair to that place, " where they shall be informed that Philip re- " sides, and with all convenient speed, mutu- '' ally receive and give the necessary oaths and " ratifications of the treaty, concluded as afore- " said with the people of Athens, including the " allies on each side. The persons chosen for " this commission are Eubulus, jEschines, " Cephisophon, Democrates, and Cleon." [c] There is an apparent difficulty in the date of this Decree, noticed by Leland, which is removed by Taylor, in his Annotations on Demosthenes de Corona, sect. 9. Editor. schines, who was at the head of this em- SEcT- f vw bassy, appears to have now devoted himself entirely to serve Philip. Eubulus seems to have had all the craft of a politician, without the genins and temper of a true patriot statesman : attentive to establish his own interest and power at home, he found it more easy and more ...« less