They behave
themfelves
impudently ; they deny ; they
tell Lies, and invent Excufes ; they do every thing to cfcape the
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tell Lies, and invent Excufes ; they do every thing to cfcape the
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The Traitor, the criminal Ambaftador, the
corrupted Mercenary, or their Accufers ? Certainly they, who
had evidently violated, not only the Libations of private Friend-
fhip, but, as you have done, the public Libations of their Country
But to convince you, that of all your Citizens, who have ever
gone either in a public, or private Character to Philip; that
of all Mankind, thefe are moft worthlefs, and raoft abandoned,
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permit me to tell you a little Story, although It hath not indeed
any Relation to this Embafly. When Philip had taken Olynthus,
he celebrated the Olympic Games. (31) To this Feftival and
its Solemnity he invited all the Comedians of Greece. Making
Entertainments for them, and crowning the Vidlors, he afked
Satyrus, the Comedian, why he alone had never made him any
Requeft, or whether he had ever perceived in him any Sordid-
nefs of Spirit, or any particular Dillike towards him ? Satyrus,
as they report, made him this Anfwer ; that he was not covetous
of what others ufually alked : The R-equeft, which he could
make with Pleafure, it was moft eafy for Philip to grant, and
to oblige him; but he was afraid of being refufed. Philip
commanding him to fpeak, and adding, with a youthful viva-
city, that he would grant whatever he afkcd, Satyrus replied,
that he had lived with ApoUophanes, the Pydnaean, in Hofpitality
and Friendfhip; that when he was treacheroufly affaiTmated,
his
(31) The Scholiaft enters with great Feflival, and the approaching Slavery
Spirit into the Circumftances of this httle of Greece, while Philip appears in his
Story, and (hews the Orator's Art to great proper Charader, the grand Corrupter,
Advantage. She Scene opens with the fearching into the Hearts, and purchafing
Deftrudion of Olynthus, a capital City, the Secrets of Mankind. The mode. ft
and the Bulwark of Greece againft the Diffidence of Satyrus is finely oppofed to
Invafions of Philip. The Audience is the Arrogance of Philip, who piomifes
juftly aftefted with the Calamities of a whatever he afked, while the Orator in-
brave, unhappy People, and fee with In- finuates, that if iEfchines had interceded
dignation the triuinphal Feaft, that cele- in this Manner for the Phopsans, Philip
bratcs their Ruin. Satyrus, a Man of would have felt the Sentiments of hu-
Probity and Modefty, is reprefented fi- man Nature, and he would have fuc-
{ently lamenting over the Occafion of this cecded in his Requeft.
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his Relations, alarmed for his Daughters, who were then in
their Infancy, had privately conveyed them to Olynthus. That
City being taken, they are become Prifoners ; they are now in
your Power, and at the Age of Marriage. I entreat and implore
you to give them to me. Yet I defire you to hear, and be infor-
med, what kind of Prelent you give me, if indeed you give. I
propofe, in Truth, no pecuniary Advantage from it, but fliall
add a little Fortune to their Freedom to difpofe of them in
Marriage, and fhall be careful, that they do not fuffer any thing
unworthy of their Father, or of our Friendihip. When the
Guefts heard this Anfwer, there was fuch Clapping of Hands,
(32) fuch Applaufe, fuch Tumults among them, that Philip
was affeded with CompafHon, and granted the Requeft, although
Apollophanes was one of the Perfons, who had killed his Brother
Alexander.
Let us now compare the Banquet of Satyrus with another
celebrated by our Ambafladors in Macedonia, that you may
perceive, whether there be any Equality, any Rcfemblance
between them. (33) Being invited by Xenophon, the Son of Phai-
dimus, one of our thirty Tyrants, they impatiently hurried to
him. 1 refufed. When they began to drink, their Hoft intro-
duces an Olynthian Woman, handfome indeed, but well born,
and
(32) The Applaufe of the Guefls is atre. Scholiast-
exprefled by a Term peculiar to the The= (33) We have now a very different
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and, as appeared in the Event, modeft. At firft, they prefTed
her gently, and without any Defign, as I imagine, and as
latrocles informed me the Day following, to eat and drink.
(34) But when the Affair proceeded a little farther, and they
grew heated with their Wine, they ordered her to fit down,
and fmg fome certain Songs. (35) The Woman refenting this
Treatment, and neither willing, nor knowing how to fing,
^fchines and Phrynon declared it was an infult and intolerable,
that a Prifoner, born among the Olynthians, a People detefted
by the Gods, and Enemies to Athens, lliould prefume to be
delicate. Call a Slave, cries iEfchines, and let fome one bring
Scourges. The Slave enters with a leathern Thong in his
Hand; when thefe Wretches, having drunk, I prefume, more
largely, became now enflamed with Rage, and although ftie
niade every Excufe, and even burft into Tears, the Slave tore
off her Clothes, and gave her feveral Stripes upon the fhoulders.
Now
F. ntertainment on the Scene. The Maf- but whether they thought him unfit for
ter of the Feaft is difcinguiflied by the their Society, or that he refufed their In-
Name of his Father, one of the thirty vitation, is equally an Honour to his
Tyrants, who had deltroyed the Liberties Charafter. He, whofe proper Paffion
and Conftitution of Athens. As we may was the Love of his Country, muft have
fuppjfe him bred in the lAixury and Riot detefted all Correfpondence with the
of Tyranny, he gives us no very favour- Defcendants of its Tyrants. Scholiast.
able Idea of the Modefty and Decency (34) He fays he heard thefe Circum-
of his Entertainment. jEfchines and ftances the Day after the Entertainment,
Phrynon, and Fhilocrates, who could to iniinuate that it continued all Night,
hold a Friendfliip with the Enemy of (j^'j Here our Guefts grow mufical ;
t'leir Country, were proper Guefts ior by which our Author ftrongly marks the'
fuch an Ho. 't. Our Author infinuates. Nature of Drunkennefs and its Abfurdi-
that he was invited and refufed to go j ties. Scholiast.
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Now out of her Senfes with the Infamy, and the Cruelty,
with which (he was treated, {he fprings forward, throws herfelf
at the Feet of latrocles, overturns the Table, and unlefs he had
carried her off, fhe muft have been murdered in this drunken
Riot; for terrible indeed is the Cruelty of this Wretch in his
Drunkennefs.
The Story of this Woman was the common Converfatioa
of a thoufand People in Arcadia ; it was related to you by
Diophantus, whom I fhall now compel to give his Teftimony;
it was a common Report in Theflaly, and indeed in every other
Part of Greece. Yet fhall the Wretch, who is confcious to
himfelf of fuch Impurities, have the Hardinefs to look you in
the Face? Shall he pompoufly boaft, with that fonorous Voice,
the Purity of his Life? This affurance provokes my Indigna-
tion. Is there a Citizen of Athens, who is ignorant, that you
very early u{ed to read her Books of Incantation to your Mother,
when fhe was initiating her Difciples in fome profane Myfteries>>
and that, even when you were a Boy, you devoted yourfelf to
the Feftivals of Bacchus, and the Commerce of Drunkards?
That you were afterwards an under Secretary to our Magiftrates,
and commenced a Villain for two or three Drachmas? (36)
N 2 Or
(36) Thefe Secretaries were employed often read falfely for a Bribe of two or
ih reading Laws, Decrees, or Decifions three Drachmas. Scholiast.
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Or laftly, that you very lately thought yourfelf extremely
happy to earn a Subfiftence by playing third-rate Characlers
for whoever would employ you in their Theatres? What Kind
of Life therefore will you boaft of? Certainly, that, which
you have never lived; becaufe the Life you really lived, is ex-
actly fuch as I have defcribed. Or will you make Profeflion
of that profligate AfTurance, with which you accufed Timar-
chus for the Turpitude of his Manners? But I fliall not enter
into that Subjed: at prefent. Read thefe Depofitions.
Depositions.
What Kind of Villainy is there, that is not included in
thofe enormous Crimes, of which he is convidled? Corruption,
Adulation, Perjury, devoted to the infernal Gods, Treachery to
Friends, whatever is moft flagitious is included in them; nor
for any one of them fhall he ever be able to make a Defence ;
any jufl: and Ample Apology. That, which he propofes to
make, as I am informed, is almofl: Madnefs. But, perhaps>>
whoever has nothing reafonable to urge in his excufe, is under
a Neceflity of inventing. For I hear he will affirm, that in
every Infliance, in which I accufe him, I was a common Part-
ner ; that I approved of all his Meafures, and affifl:ed him in
the Execution, although I now fuddenly alter my Condud:,
and become his Accufer. Such an Apology with regard to him,
is neither juft nor honourable, although againfl: me a Kind of
Accu-
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Accufation ; becaufe, if I have adted in this Manner, I am
certainly a very bad Man, but the Adions themfelves are, upon
that Account, nothing better. This reafoning requires very
little Proof. However, I think myfelf obliged to convince you,
that he utters a Falfehood in fuch an AfTertion, and only means
to avoid a regular Trial. It were indeed a reafonable and
clear Defence, either to prove he never was guilty of the Crimes,
of which he is accufed, or that his Condud was for the general
Intereft of the Republic. Neither of thefe will he ever be
able to prove. ImpofTible he fliould be able to prove,
that the Deftrudion of Phocis, Philip's taking Poffeflion of
Thermopyl^, the growing Power of Thebes, the aflem-
bling of the Troops in Eub^ea, the fecret Defigns upon the
Megarasans, and the Peace concluded without Philip's Oath,
were for the Intereft of the Republic; the very contrary to
which he then afferted would be for your Advantage, and pro-
mifed fhould be executed. Nor fhall he ever be able to per-
fuade you, in Contradidtion to what you have feen and experi-
enced, that thefe Things have not (ince happened. It therefore
only remains for me to demonftrate, that I never had any Share
in thefe Tranfadions.
Is It your Pleafure therefore, that, omitting all otlierCircum-
ftances, for Inftance, in what Manner I contradicted them in
your Prefence J thwarted them during our Journey, and oppofed
them all the Time of our Embaffy, I fhould produce my
Witnelles.
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Witnefles to prove, that all our Adioiis have been totally diffe-
rent, and that they received, ruinoully for your Interefts, thofe
Bribes, which I refufed to accept. Then confider, who amongft
your Citizens is rnoft infamous, moft defpicable, and fhamelefs?
I am well convinced, that you can never, even by Miftake,
name any other, but Philocrates. Who of all others is moft
clamorous; who pronounces with a fonorous Voice whatever
he pleafes in your Aflemblies ? ^fchines undoubtedly. Whom
do they call fpiritlefs, and a Coward in popular Tumults,
though I fhould rather call him modeft? Demofthenes. For
I was never turbulent; never made ufe of Violence in oppofing
your Inclinations. In all your Affemblies, whenever thefe
Affairs have been debated, you always heard me accufing,
reproving, and openly declaring, that your Ambaffadors were
corrupted, and had abfolutely fold the Republic. Yet while
they heard thefe Accufations and Reproofs, not one of them
prefumed to contradid: me, nor opened his Mouth, nor ventu-
red even to fhew himfelf in Public.
What Reafon then can be afilgned, that thefe Men, the
boldeft Profligates, and loudeft Talkers in the City, fhould be
fo often foiled in our Difnutes by me, of all Mankind the leaft
prefjmiiig, and never exerting any fuperior Force in fpeaking?
becaufc, Truth i^ powerful , and Fahehood weak: becaufe, the
Confcioufnefs of their having fold their Country takes away
their
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their Confidence, perverts their Utterance, ftops their Mouths,
fuffocates and forces them to be filent. Laftly, you may re-
member, that when you lately refufed in the Pyrseum to appoint
iEfchines one of your Ambaffadors, he vociferoufly declared,
with many a tragical Exclamation, that he would impeach and
profecute me before the Senate. Thefe paflionate Exclamations
are ufually the Beginnings of long and numerous Difputes, where-
as the following Expreflions are perfedly fimple, and fuch as a
Slave, purchafed even yefterday, might repeat; " This Affair,
" O Men of Athens, in all its Circumftances is moft unjuft.
** Demofthenes accules me of thofe Crimes, of which he was
" equally guilty ; he fays, I received Bribes, which he himfelf
" received, either alone, or in Partnerfhip with others. " But
he never mentioned ; he never urged an Objedlion of this Kind ;
you never heard him fpeak this Language. Yet he made ufe
of Menaces. Why? becaufe, he was confcious of having
committed thefe Crimes, and therefore dreaded thefe Expref-
iions like a Slave. His Imagination never ventured fo far; it
refufed the Tafk, and his Confcience recoiled upon him ; while
nothing hindered him from abufing and calumniating.
But the greateft of all his Villainies does not confiR: in
Words, but Deeds. When I had determined, as was reafonable
fince I was twice an Ambaflador, to render twice an Account
of my Condudl, this JEkhmes, in Prefence of a thoufand Wit-
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nefles, went forward to the Clerks, and forbad fhem to fum-
mon me into the Court, becaufe, I had alrtddy paft my Ac-
counts, and was therefore no longer liable to any other Fnfpec-
tion. The Affair was excelTively ridiculous. When he had
given in the Accounts of his firfl: Embafly, for which he never
was accufed, yet he would not venture a Trial of the fecond,
for which he is now indi6ted, and in which all his Crimes are
included. If I had been permitted to have given in an Account
of my fecond Embafly, he too had neceflarily been obliged to
appear a fecond Time. He therefore would not fuffer me to
be fummoned. This Adion alone, O Men of Athens, mani-
feflly difcovers, that he ftands felf-condemned ; that you cannot,
with Reverence to the Gods, acquit him, and that with regard
to me, he never uttered a Syllable of Truth. Becaufe, if
he had any thing in his Power; if he had difcovered aught
whereof to reproach or accufe me, he certainly would not have
hindered my being fummoned. In Proof of thefe Fads, let
the Witneflfis be called.
The Witnesses.
If however he fhould calumniate me in any other Inftance,
befides this Embafly, there are many Reafons, which forbid
you to hear him. I am neither this Day accufed, (37) nor obliged
to
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to make my defence. What therefore is this perfonal Calumny,
except an abfolute Want of any reafonable Apology for himfelf?
Becaufe, who would accufe others, when he himfelf is profecu-
tcd, if he were capable of making his own Defence ? Confider,
if I were on my own Trial, iEfchines my Accufer, and Philip
my Judge ; if I had it not in my Power to deny my being
guilty, yet threw out Inve6lives, and endeavoured to calumni-
ate my Accufer, would not Philip generoufly refent his Benefac-
tor's being thus rudely treated in his Prefence? Be not you
therefore lefs gener -us than Philip, but oblige iEfchines to make
his defence, with regard to thofe Points alone, ? of which he is
accufed.
In the Confcioufnefs of my own Innocence, I thought myfelf
obliged to give an Account of my EmbafI)', and to fubmit to
whatever the Laws commanded. JE fchints purfued a contrary
Method. Whence is it pofllble therefore, that our Conduct
could ever have been the fame? Or whence does he now re--
proach me with Crimes, of which he never accufed me before ?
Certainly, never. He will however talk in this Manner, and,
by the Gods, not without Realbnj for you are perfectly fenfible,
that fince Mankind came into the World, and Trials were firfl:
inftituted, never were Criminals found, who confefTed their
Guilt.
They behave themfelves impudently ; they deny ; they
tell Lies, and invent Excufes ; they do every thing to cfcape the
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Punifliment they merit. It is your Duty to avoid being influen-
ced this Day by fuch Artifices. Pronounce Sentence according
to your own Knowledge, nor pay any Attention either to my
Affertions, or thofe of -^fchines, or to his Witnefles, whom he
hath always ready to give Evidence for him, and whom Philip
maintains. You will obferve how dextroufly they give their
Teftimony in his Favour. Neither fhould you regard the
Sweetnefs and Strength of his Voice, or the We^knefs of mine.
Becaufe not upon Orators, if you be wife, nor their Orations,
are you this Day to pronounce Sentence, but to retort the Infamy
of your Affairs, thus ignommioufly and- iniquitoufly ruined,
upon the Authors, after having examined the Fads, of which
you are perfedlly well aflured. What Fa? ls? Thofe of which;
you yourfelves confcious, and have not any Occafion of hearing
from us. For, if all thofe Advantages, which -^fchines promi-
fed, have indeed rifen from this Peace; if you can acknowledge
yourfelves to have been lb miferably funk in Indolence and;
Cowardice, that although your Dominions were neither invaded
by Land, or Sea, nor the Republic in any other Danger; al-
though Provisions bore a reafbnable Price, and our Situation
was in general what it is at prefent; although you forefaw, and
wxre informed by your Ambafladors, that your Confederates:
would be ruined, and the Thebans grow povv^erful; that Philip,
would make himfelf Mafter of Thrace, and raife Fortreffes
againll you in Eub^a, with a certainty that every thing, which.
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hath fince happened, was really to happen, yet you could have
been well contented to conclude this Peace, then let i^^fchlnes
be acquitted, and do not add Perjury to fucli Inftances of
Bafenefs. He hath committed no Injury againft you, but I
was tranfported by Madnefs and Extrav^agance, when I accufcd
him. But if on the contrary, your Ambafladors afTured you,
with many and the moft foothing Expreflions, " that Philip
' had an Affedlion for the Republic; would prefcrve the
' Phoc? eans; reprefs the Infolence of the Thebans; confer
' Benefits upon you far greater than any, that regarded Am-
' phipolis, and if you granted him a Peace, would reftore
' Eubzeaand Oropus to you;" if by making thefe Declarations
and Promifes they have deceived and impofed upon you in every
Inftance, and only not delivered up Attica to the Enemy, let
them be condemned ; nor in Addition to the ignominious Inju-
ries (I know not any other Expreflion for them) you have already
fufFered by tlieir being corrupted, carry home with you the
Horrors of Execration and Perjury.
Consider befides, O Men of Athens, from what Motive, if
they indeed are innocent, I have undertaken to accufe them.
You fhall find no fuch Motive. Is it plcafing to have
many Enemies? It is not even without Danger. " But I had
^' fome perfonal Quarrel with i^llchines. " None. " Did you
" then tremble for you rfelf, Demofthenes, and in your Fearful -
O 2 " nefs,
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" nefs, imagine this Profecution your only Security. " I have
heard, he ventures even this Extravagance. But in Truth,
/Efchines, there was nothing terrible; there was no Guilt, as
you afiert. If ever he fays this again, confid'er, you who are our
Judges, if I, who am totally innocent,, was alarmed with
Terrors of being deftroyed by thde Traitors, what Punifhment
ought they to fuffer, who are totally guilty? Since not for
thefe Reafons, yet for what other do I accule you ? *^' I calum -
" niate, in the Name of Jupiter! that I may extort Money from
" you. " Yet were it not more elegible to have taken it from
Philip (who gave it in Abundance) and not in lefs Sums, than
any of them received, efpecially when I might thus prcferve his
Friendfhip and theii's? Undoubtedly, moft undoubtedly, I
fhould have preferved their Feiendfliip, if I had entered into
their Schemes, for they had no paternal, ancient Quarrel to mCj. .
and only refented my not engaging in their Projects. Were
not this more eligible, than to demand a fordid Pittance of the
Bribes they had received, and thus make both Philip and them,
my Enemies ? Did I then, at fuch. Expencc,. out of my own
private Fortune, ranfom our Fellow-Citizens, and could I
meanly condefcend to take this wretched Pittance from them,
and attended with their Hatred too ? Impoflible. But all the
Reports I made to you werp true; I reftrained myfelf from taking
Prcfcnts, in a Senfe of Juftice, and of Truth, and a regard to
my future Life ; imagining, that I, like fome other of your
Citizens,
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Citizens, if I maintained my Integrity, might be honoured by
you, and diftinguiflied above the Vulgar, and that I never fhould
exchange my Zeal for your Service for any pofiible Advantage.
But I hated thefe AmbaiTadors, becaufe I fiivv them ading ini-
quitoufly towards you, and impioufly to the Gods in their
Embafly ; becaufe I was deprived, by their rapacious Corruption,
of the Honours I perfonally merited, while you treated the whole
Embafly with equal Indignation. But looking forward to Futu-
rity, and willing that you fhould determine in this Trial, and
at this Tribunal, that our Adions were totally different, I now
accufe, and fummon them to render the ufual Account of their
Conduct. I am, however, apprehenfive, greatly apprehenfive,
(for all my Thoughts fhall be laid before you) that you then
included me, though perfectly guiltlefs, in the Sufpicion of
their Crimes, and are now extremely inattentive to my Inno-
cence. For to me you appear, O Men of Athens, abfolutely
diflblved in Indoleace and expecting your Misfortunes witli
IndifTerence. When you behold others labouring in Diftrefs,
you are neither concerned for their Safety, nor anxious for the
Republic, that hath been long injured in fo various and outra-
gious a Manner. Do you not think it terrible and monftrous
what I am going to relate? for although I had determined to-
be filent, yet I am forced to fpeak. You all know Pythocles.
I had long lived with him in every Kind of Intimacy, nor did:
any thing unfriendly ever happen between us even to this Day.
But
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But fince he returned from this Embafly to PhiHp, he avoids mc
upon all Occalions ; or if he be compelled accidentally ro meet
me, he ftarts away, left any one fhonld fee him fpeaking to me.
Yet he walks round the Forum with M^chmts^ confults with
him, and enters into his Schemes. Is it not then provoking,
O Men of Athens; is it not a miferable Reflexion that Philip
fliould be fo attentive both to the Friendfhip and Enmity of
thofe, who engage in his Service, as that each of them believes
he perfe6lly knows all their Adtions here, as if he were perfonally
prefcnt ; that they efteem thofe Ferfons their Friends or Enemies,
whom he regards with Friendfhip or Enmity, yet, on the con-
trary, that they, who live only for your Welfare; who are
ambitious only of thofe Honours, which you can beftow, and
of which they never deferted the Purfuit, fliould meet among
you with fuch obftinate Deafnefs in hearing, and fuch Blindnefs
in feeing, as that I fliould be compelled at this Moment to
hold a contefl: with thefe execrable Villains upon equal Terms,
and before an Audience, perfedly confcious of their Crimes ?
Are you willing to hear and be convinced, from what Caufe
thefe Diforders arifc ? I will inform you. But be not angry
with me, I befeech you, for declaring the Truth. As Philip
hath one Body, fo I really think he hath only one Soul. With
all his Heart he loves whoever obliges him; with all his Heart
he detefts whoever oppofcs him. But a Citizen of Athens never
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efleems the Man, who is fcrviceable to the Republic, as doing
him any perfonal ObUgation, or thinks himfelf injured by thofc,
who injure the Commonwealth. Every Man hath fome parti-
cular Paffion, Pity, Envy, Refentment, a Deiire of obliging
whoever afks a Favour, and a thoufand others, by which you are
frequently mifled. (38) Yet thefe particular, and feparate
Errours, advancing by Degrees, fall at laft in one colledled
Ruin on the Republic. Do not therefore, O Men of Athens,
again commit fuch Errors, nor acquit the Man, by whom you
have been thus egregioufly injured.
Yet what will be tlie general Language of Mankind, if you
acquit him ? '* Philocrates, ^fchines, Phrynon, Demofthenes,
" went from Athens, as Ambafladors to Philip. " What then?
" the laft, beQdes not receiving any Emolument from his Em-
" bafly, out of his own Fortune redeemed his Fellow- Citizens,
" v^hile ^fchines wandered through Greece, purchafing
" Harlots and FiiK, with that very Money, for which he fold
" the Interefts of the Republic ; and the polluted Phrynon fent
'' his
(38) A Sentence, that appears in all ti-fadion, he may form his own Judge-
our Editions, is here left oyt of the ment of the Meaning of the Paflage by
Tranflation. It is not only unintelH- the following Iranflations. E fe un
gible, but unprofitably breaks the Senfe ftigge, tutti gli a'. lri JJmftri, almeno ncn
and Connexion of the whole Period. f^<o egli fuggir color o, i quali non vcgli-
Whcre Doftor Taylor acknowledges his ono^ che mnn fta tale. Quod fi quis cs-
Doubts, the Tranflator may without tera qureque efiugiat, eos, qui ncmineni,
Shame acknowledge his Ignorance. How. - vtllent ejufmodi cITe, certe non eiFug'ee;.
ever, to give the Reader all poffible Sar
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" his Son, not yet arrived at Manhood, to PhiHp. But De-
" mofthenes a6led not in any thing unworthy of the RepubHc,
" orofhimfelF. For, as when he was ^dile, and appointed a
" Trierarch for Equipment of the Fleet, hegenerouHy fupport-
" ed the Expence of thofe Employments, fo in this Inftance
" he thought it his Duty voluntarily to expend his Fortune jn
*' ranfoming Prifoners, and not to fuffer his Fellow-Citizens
" through Indigence to continue in Mifery. But ^fchines,
" fo far from purchafing at his own Expence a fingle Perfon's
" Freedom, affifted Philip in reducing a whole Province, and
*' makino- the Troops of our Confederates, more than ten
" thoufand Foot with almoft a thoufand Horfe, Prifoners of
<' War. " What was the Confequence? " The Athenian
*' People (who were perfectly convinced of their Guilt) having
*' brought them to their Trial" What then? " They ac-
" quitted the Traitors, vvho had received Bribes and Prefents;
t' who had difhonoured themfelves, the Republic, and their
" Pofterity. They adjudged, that they had a6ted with Wifdom,
" and that the Common-wealth was profperoufly conducted
*' under their Adminiftration. " But their Accufer? " Was
" an extravagant Vifionary; knew not the Temper of his Fel-
" low-Citizens; had no other Manner oflavifhing away his
" Fortune. "
Who then, O Men of Athens, when he beholds this Ex-
ample, will ever be anxious to preferve his Integrity ? Who
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will be an Ambaflador for nothing, if he, who prefervcs him-
felf uncorrupted, hath no more Confidence with you, than
thefe Receivers of Bribes? Thus, you do not only, this Day,
pronounce Sentence upon thefe Traitors ; but you eftablidi a
Law for all fucceeding Time, to determine, whether your
future Ambafladors fhall infamoufly fupport the Interefts of
yotir Enemies for a Penfion, or for nothing and unpenfioned
confult the Utility of the Republic. With regard to all other
Particulars, you can have no Occafion for Evidence, but to
prove, that Phrynon fent his Son to PhiHp, call me the Wit-
nefles of that Affair.
The Witnesses.
^ffiscHiNEs, therefore, hath not accufed Plirynon of having
fent his Son to Philip for the infamous Purpofes of Proftitution ;
but if another, in his Youth excelling in the Beauty of his
Perfon, and not forefeeing the Sufpicions, that naturally attend
on Beauty, hath perhaps Hved a little too Hcentioufly, this Man
iEfchines indidled for Impurity of Manners.
I SHALL now fpeak to the Invitation I made our Ambafladors
to a Banquet in the Prytan^um, and to the Decree I propofed
on that Occafion; for this Affair, which I ought particularly to
have mentioned, had very nearly efcaped my Memory. With
regard to the firft Embafly, when I had written the Decree of
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the Senate, and afterwards that of the People (while In thofe
Affemblies, in which you were to deliberate upon the Peace,
there were yet no Sufpicions of their Condud rumoured abroad,
nor any apparent Injury committed by them) according to the
Ufages eftablifhed by Law, I pronounced their Panegyric, and
invited them to the Prytanacum. Befides, I confefs I entertained
Philip's Ambafladors moft hofpitably ; indeed, O Men of
Athens, moft fplendidly. For having obferved in Macedonia,
that they gloried in the Luxury of fuch Entertainments, as
Objedis of Happinefs and Splendor, I inftantly thought myfelf
obliged to aflume a Superiority over them, and to difplay a
greater Spirit of Magnificence. But uSfchines will urge it as an
Objecftion, and exclaim, " Demofthenes himfelf pronounced
*' our Panegyric; Demofthenes entertained Philip's Ambafta-
dors," but without diftinguifhing the Date of thefe Fads.
They happened, however, before the Republic was injured;
before thefe Traitors had apparently fold themfelves; when
Philip's Ambafladors were but juft arrived, and the People were
yet to hear their Propofals ; when ^(chines had not openly
pleaded the Caufe of Philocrates, and when he himfelf had not
propofed his Decree. If he urges thefe Objedions, do you
remember the Date of thefe Tranfadlions ; that they preceded
their Crimes, and that afterwards I never had any Society with
them, any Communication. Read the Evidence>>
The Evidence>>
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But perhaps his Brothers, Philocrates, and Aphobetus will
undertake his Defence ; to both of whom you may return a
very full and reafonable Reply ; but it is neceflary to fpeak with
Freedom, and without referve. " We are not ignorant that you,
** Philocrates, are a Painter of earthen Vafes for Perfumers, and
" of Bacchanalian Cymbals; that your Brothers Aphobetus,
" and iEfchines, are public-Notaries by Profeffion, and by
" Birth of the common People (Circum fiances indeed removed
" from Infamy, but certainly not meriting any military Com-
" mand) yet we have efteemed you worthy of EmbaiTics,
" Commiflions in our Armies, and all the higheft Dignities of
the Republic. Suppofe then you never have committed a
Crime, we do not therefore owe you any Obligation, but
you are in Gratitude indebted to us for the Employments you
hold, becaufe we paffed by many others more deferving,
" and adorned you with thefe Honours. If either of you hath
" been faulty in thefe Employments, with which you were thus
" diftinguifhed, efpecially as they were of fuch Importance,
** how much rather fhould you be detefted, than acquitted? "
In my Opinion, much rather.
But they will perhaps grow violent, and being, as they are,
clamorous, and impudent, they will aflert, that defending a
Brother is always pardonable. Do not give way to this Afier-
tion, but be convinced, that as it is their Duty to be anxious
P 2 for
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for the Safety of their Brother, fo is it yours to defend the Laws,
the whole RepubUc, and efpecially to preferve the Oaths invio-
lable, which you took before you fat upon this Tribunal. But
if they folicit you to acquit this Man, confider whether they
make the Requeft upon a Prefuinption of his appearing innocent
or guilty ? If innocent, I myfelf declare for his acquittal ; if
they defire it upon any other Terms, they defire you to perjure
yourfelves. Becaufe, although the Suffrage be given in fecret,
it does not therefore efcape the Knowledge of the Gods. For
the Legiflator, in this, and all other Inftances, mofl: excellent,
hath pronounced*, " the fuffrages fhall be given in fecret. "
Wherefore? That the Criminal may never know the Man,
to whom he is obliged. But the Gods, and the fupreme Divi-
nity will know the Man, who hath not pronounced an upright
Sentence j and it is infinitely more eligible to expert from them
our own Happinefs, and that of our Pofterity, for giving
Judgement with Juftice and Equity, than to fix a fecret and
uncertain Obligation upon the Criminal, or to acquit this Man,
who hath himfelf given Evidence againft himfelf.
corrupted Mercenary, or their Accufers ? Certainly they, who
had evidently violated, not only the Libations of private Friend-
fhip, but, as you have done, the public Libations of their Country
But to convince you, that of all your Citizens, who have ever
gone either in a public, or private Character to Philip; that
of all Mankind, thefe are moft worthlefs, and raoft abandoned,
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permit me to tell you a little Story, although It hath not indeed
any Relation to this Embafly. When Philip had taken Olynthus,
he celebrated the Olympic Games. (31) To this Feftival and
its Solemnity he invited all the Comedians of Greece. Making
Entertainments for them, and crowning the Vidlors, he afked
Satyrus, the Comedian, why he alone had never made him any
Requeft, or whether he had ever perceived in him any Sordid-
nefs of Spirit, or any particular Dillike towards him ? Satyrus,
as they report, made him this Anfwer ; that he was not covetous
of what others ufually alked : The R-equeft, which he could
make with Pleafure, it was moft eafy for Philip to grant, and
to oblige him; but he was afraid of being refufed. Philip
commanding him to fpeak, and adding, with a youthful viva-
city, that he would grant whatever he afkcd, Satyrus replied,
that he had lived with ApoUophanes, the Pydnaean, in Hofpitality
and Friendfhip; that when he was treacheroufly affaiTmated,
his
(31) The Scholiaft enters with great Feflival, and the approaching Slavery
Spirit into the Circumftances of this httle of Greece, while Philip appears in his
Story, and (hews the Orator's Art to great proper Charader, the grand Corrupter,
Advantage. She Scene opens with the fearching into the Hearts, and purchafing
Deftrudion of Olynthus, a capital City, the Secrets of Mankind. The mode. ft
and the Bulwark of Greece againft the Diffidence of Satyrus is finely oppofed to
Invafions of Philip. The Audience is the Arrogance of Philip, who piomifes
juftly aftefted with the Calamities of a whatever he afked, while the Orator in-
brave, unhappy People, and fee with In- finuates, that if iEfchines had interceded
dignation the triuinphal Feaft, that cele- in this Manner for the Phopsans, Philip
bratcs their Ruin. Satyrus, a Man of would have felt the Sentiments of hu-
Probity and Modefty, is reprefented fi- man Nature, and he would have fuc-
{ently lamenting over the Occafion of this cecded in his Requeft.
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his Relations, alarmed for his Daughters, who were then in
their Infancy, had privately conveyed them to Olynthus. That
City being taken, they are become Prifoners ; they are now in
your Power, and at the Age of Marriage. I entreat and implore
you to give them to me. Yet I defire you to hear, and be infor-
med, what kind of Prelent you give me, if indeed you give. I
propofe, in Truth, no pecuniary Advantage from it, but fliall
add a little Fortune to their Freedom to difpofe of them in
Marriage, and fhall be careful, that they do not fuffer any thing
unworthy of their Father, or of our Friendihip. When the
Guefts heard this Anfwer, there was fuch Clapping of Hands,
(32) fuch Applaufe, fuch Tumults among them, that Philip
was affeded with CompafHon, and granted the Requeft, although
Apollophanes was one of the Perfons, who had killed his Brother
Alexander.
Let us now compare the Banquet of Satyrus with another
celebrated by our Ambafladors in Macedonia, that you may
perceive, whether there be any Equality, any Rcfemblance
between them. (33) Being invited by Xenophon, the Son of Phai-
dimus, one of our thirty Tyrants, they impatiently hurried to
him. 1 refufed. When they began to drink, their Hoft intro-
duces an Olynthian Woman, handfome indeed, but well born,
and
(32) The Applaufe of the Guefls is atre. Scholiast-
exprefled by a Term peculiar to the The= (33) We have now a very different
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and, as appeared in the Event, modeft. At firft, they prefTed
her gently, and without any Defign, as I imagine, and as
latrocles informed me the Day following, to eat and drink.
(34) But when the Affair proceeded a little farther, and they
grew heated with their Wine, they ordered her to fit down,
and fmg fome certain Songs. (35) The Woman refenting this
Treatment, and neither willing, nor knowing how to fing,
^fchines and Phrynon declared it was an infult and intolerable,
that a Prifoner, born among the Olynthians, a People detefted
by the Gods, and Enemies to Athens, lliould prefume to be
delicate. Call a Slave, cries iEfchines, and let fome one bring
Scourges. The Slave enters with a leathern Thong in his
Hand; when thefe Wretches, having drunk, I prefume, more
largely, became now enflamed with Rage, and although ftie
niade every Excufe, and even burft into Tears, the Slave tore
off her Clothes, and gave her feveral Stripes upon the fhoulders.
Now
F. ntertainment on the Scene. The Maf- but whether they thought him unfit for
ter of the Feaft is difcinguiflied by the their Society, or that he refufed their In-
Name of his Father, one of the thirty vitation, is equally an Honour to his
Tyrants, who had deltroyed the Liberties Charafter. He, whofe proper Paffion
and Conftitution of Athens. As we may was the Love of his Country, muft have
fuppjfe him bred in the lAixury and Riot detefted all Correfpondence with the
of Tyranny, he gives us no very favour- Defcendants of its Tyrants. Scholiast.
able Idea of the Modefty and Decency (34) He fays he heard thefe Circum-
of his Entertainment. jEfchines and ftances the Day after the Entertainment,
Phrynon, and Fhilocrates, who could to iniinuate that it continued all Night,
hold a Friendfliip with the Enemy of (j^'j Here our Guefts grow mufical ;
t'leir Country, were proper Guefts ior by which our Author ftrongly marks the'
fuch an Ho. 't. Our Author infinuates. Nature of Drunkennefs and its Abfurdi-
that he was invited and refufed to go j ties. Scholiast.
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Now out of her Senfes with the Infamy, and the Cruelty,
with which (he was treated, {he fprings forward, throws herfelf
at the Feet of latrocles, overturns the Table, and unlefs he had
carried her off, fhe muft have been murdered in this drunken
Riot; for terrible indeed is the Cruelty of this Wretch in his
Drunkennefs.
The Story of this Woman was the common Converfatioa
of a thoufand People in Arcadia ; it was related to you by
Diophantus, whom I fhall now compel to give his Teftimony;
it was a common Report in Theflaly, and indeed in every other
Part of Greece. Yet fhall the Wretch, who is confcious to
himfelf of fuch Impurities, have the Hardinefs to look you in
the Face? Shall he pompoufly boaft, with that fonorous Voice,
the Purity of his Life? This affurance provokes my Indigna-
tion. Is there a Citizen of Athens, who is ignorant, that you
very early u{ed to read her Books of Incantation to your Mother,
when fhe was initiating her Difciples in fome profane Myfteries>>
and that, even when you were a Boy, you devoted yourfelf to
the Feftivals of Bacchus, and the Commerce of Drunkards?
That you were afterwards an under Secretary to our Magiftrates,
and commenced a Villain for two or three Drachmas? (36)
N 2 Or
(36) Thefe Secretaries were employed often read falfely for a Bribe of two or
ih reading Laws, Decrees, or Decifions three Drachmas. Scholiast.
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Or laftly, that you very lately thought yourfelf extremely
happy to earn a Subfiftence by playing third-rate Characlers
for whoever would employ you in their Theatres? What Kind
of Life therefore will you boaft of? Certainly, that, which
you have never lived; becaufe the Life you really lived, is ex-
actly fuch as I have defcribed. Or will you make Profeflion
of that profligate AfTurance, with which you accufed Timar-
chus for the Turpitude of his Manners? But I fliall not enter
into that Subjed: at prefent. Read thefe Depofitions.
Depositions.
What Kind of Villainy is there, that is not included in
thofe enormous Crimes, of which he is convidled? Corruption,
Adulation, Perjury, devoted to the infernal Gods, Treachery to
Friends, whatever is moft flagitious is included in them; nor
for any one of them fhall he ever be able to make a Defence ;
any jufl: and Ample Apology. That, which he propofes to
make, as I am informed, is almofl: Madnefs. But, perhaps>>
whoever has nothing reafonable to urge in his excufe, is under
a Neceflity of inventing. For I hear he will affirm, that in
every Infliance, in which I accufe him, I was a common Part-
ner ; that I approved of all his Meafures, and affifl:ed him in
the Execution, although I now fuddenly alter my Condud:,
and become his Accufer. Such an Apology with regard to him,
is neither juft nor honourable, although againfl: me a Kind of
Accu-
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Accufation ; becaufe, if I have adted in this Manner, I am
certainly a very bad Man, but the Adions themfelves are, upon
that Account, nothing better. This reafoning requires very
little Proof. However, I think myfelf obliged to convince you,
that he utters a Falfehood in fuch an AfTertion, and only means
to avoid a regular Trial. It were indeed a reafonable and
clear Defence, either to prove he never was guilty of the Crimes,
of which he is accufed, or that his Condud was for the general
Intereft of the Republic. Neither of thefe will he ever be
able to prove. ImpofTible he fliould be able to prove,
that the Deftrudion of Phocis, Philip's taking Poffeflion of
Thermopyl^, the growing Power of Thebes, the aflem-
bling of the Troops in Eub^ea, the fecret Defigns upon the
Megarasans, and the Peace concluded without Philip's Oath,
were for the Intereft of the Republic; the very contrary to
which he then afferted would be for your Advantage, and pro-
mifed fhould be executed. Nor fhall he ever be able to per-
fuade you, in Contradidtion to what you have feen and experi-
enced, that thefe Things have not (ince happened. It therefore
only remains for me to demonftrate, that I never had any Share
in thefe Tranfadions.
Is It your Pleafure therefore, that, omitting all otlierCircum-
ftances, for Inftance, in what Manner I contradicted them in
your Prefence J thwarted them during our Journey, and oppofed
them all the Time of our Embaffy, I fhould produce my
Witnelles.
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Witnefles to prove, that all our Adioiis have been totally diffe-
rent, and that they received, ruinoully for your Interefts, thofe
Bribes, which I refufed to accept. Then confider, who amongft
your Citizens is rnoft infamous, moft defpicable, and fhamelefs?
I am well convinced, that you can never, even by Miftake,
name any other, but Philocrates. Who of all others is moft
clamorous; who pronounces with a fonorous Voice whatever
he pleafes in your Aflemblies ? ^fchines undoubtedly. Whom
do they call fpiritlefs, and a Coward in popular Tumults,
though I fhould rather call him modeft? Demofthenes. For
I was never turbulent; never made ufe of Violence in oppofing
your Inclinations. In all your Affemblies, whenever thefe
Affairs have been debated, you always heard me accufing,
reproving, and openly declaring, that your Ambaffadors were
corrupted, and had abfolutely fold the Republic. Yet while
they heard thefe Accufations and Reproofs, not one of them
prefumed to contradid: me, nor opened his Mouth, nor ventu-
red even to fhew himfelf in Public.
What Reafon then can be afilgned, that thefe Men, the
boldeft Profligates, and loudeft Talkers in the City, fhould be
fo often foiled in our Difnutes by me, of all Mankind the leaft
prefjmiiig, and never exerting any fuperior Force in fpeaking?
becaufc, Truth i^ powerful , and Fahehood weak: becaufe, the
Confcioufnefs of their having fold their Country takes away
their
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their Confidence, perverts their Utterance, ftops their Mouths,
fuffocates and forces them to be filent. Laftly, you may re-
member, that when you lately refufed in the Pyrseum to appoint
iEfchines one of your Ambaffadors, he vociferoufly declared,
with many a tragical Exclamation, that he would impeach and
profecute me before the Senate. Thefe paflionate Exclamations
are ufually the Beginnings of long and numerous Difputes, where-
as the following Expreflions are perfedly fimple, and fuch as a
Slave, purchafed even yefterday, might repeat; " This Affair,
" O Men of Athens, in all its Circumftances is moft unjuft.
** Demofthenes accules me of thofe Crimes, of which he was
" equally guilty ; he fays, I received Bribes, which he himfelf
" received, either alone, or in Partnerfhip with others. " But
he never mentioned ; he never urged an Objedlion of this Kind ;
you never heard him fpeak this Language. Yet he made ufe
of Menaces. Why? becaufe, he was confcious of having
committed thefe Crimes, and therefore dreaded thefe Expref-
iions like a Slave. His Imagination never ventured fo far; it
refufed the Tafk, and his Confcience recoiled upon him ; while
nothing hindered him from abufing and calumniating.
But the greateft of all his Villainies does not confiR: in
Words, but Deeds. When I had determined, as was reafonable
fince I was twice an Ambaflador, to render twice an Account
of my Condudl, this JEkhmes, in Prefence of a thoufand Wit-
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nefles, went forward to the Clerks, and forbad fhem to fum-
mon me into the Court, becaufe, I had alrtddy paft my Ac-
counts, and was therefore no longer liable to any other Fnfpec-
tion. The Affair was excelTively ridiculous. When he had
given in the Accounts of his firfl: Embafly, for which he never
was accufed, yet he would not venture a Trial of the fecond,
for which he is now indi6ted, and in which all his Crimes are
included. If I had been permitted to have given in an Account
of my fecond Embafly, he too had neceflarily been obliged to
appear a fecond Time. He therefore would not fuffer me to
be fummoned. This Adion alone, O Men of Athens, mani-
feflly difcovers, that he ftands felf-condemned ; that you cannot,
with Reverence to the Gods, acquit him, and that with regard
to me, he never uttered a Syllable of Truth. Becaufe, if
he had any thing in his Power; if he had difcovered aught
whereof to reproach or accufe me, he certainly would not have
hindered my being fummoned. In Proof of thefe Fads, let
the Witneflfis be called.
The Witnesses.
If however he fhould calumniate me in any other Inftance,
befides this Embafly, there are many Reafons, which forbid
you to hear him. I am neither this Day accufed, (37) nor obliged
to
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to make my defence. What therefore is this perfonal Calumny,
except an abfolute Want of any reafonable Apology for himfelf?
Becaufe, who would accufe others, when he himfelf is profecu-
tcd, if he were capable of making his own Defence ? Confider,
if I were on my own Trial, iEfchines my Accufer, and Philip
my Judge ; if I had it not in my Power to deny my being
guilty, yet threw out Inve6lives, and endeavoured to calumni-
ate my Accufer, would not Philip generoufly refent his Benefac-
tor's being thus rudely treated in his Prefence? Be not you
therefore lefs gener -us than Philip, but oblige iEfchines to make
his defence, with regard to thofe Points alone, ? of which he is
accufed.
In the Confcioufnefs of my own Innocence, I thought myfelf
obliged to give an Account of my EmbafI)', and to fubmit to
whatever the Laws commanded. JE fchints purfued a contrary
Method. Whence is it pofllble therefore, that our Conduct
could ever have been the fame? Or whence does he now re--
proach me with Crimes, of which he never accufed me before ?
Certainly, never. He will however talk in this Manner, and,
by the Gods, not without Realbnj for you are perfectly fenfible,
that fince Mankind came into the World, and Trials were firfl:
inftituted, never were Criminals found, who confefTed their
Guilt.
They behave themfelves impudently ; they deny ; they
tell Lies, and invent Excufes ; they do every thing to cfcape the
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Punifliment they merit. It is your Duty to avoid being influen-
ced this Day by fuch Artifices. Pronounce Sentence according
to your own Knowledge, nor pay any Attention either to my
Affertions, or thofe of -^fchines, or to his Witnefles, whom he
hath always ready to give Evidence for him, and whom Philip
maintains. You will obferve how dextroufly they give their
Teftimony in his Favour. Neither fhould you regard the
Sweetnefs and Strength of his Voice, or the We^knefs of mine.
Becaufe not upon Orators, if you be wife, nor their Orations,
are you this Day to pronounce Sentence, but to retort the Infamy
of your Affairs, thus ignommioufly and- iniquitoufly ruined,
upon the Authors, after having examined the Fads, of which
you are perfedlly well aflured. What Fa? ls? Thofe of which;
you yourfelves confcious, and have not any Occafion of hearing
from us. For, if all thofe Advantages, which -^fchines promi-
fed, have indeed rifen from this Peace; if you can acknowledge
yourfelves to have been lb miferably funk in Indolence and;
Cowardice, that although your Dominions were neither invaded
by Land, or Sea, nor the Republic in any other Danger; al-
though Provisions bore a reafbnable Price, and our Situation
was in general what it is at prefent; although you forefaw, and
wxre informed by your Ambafladors, that your Confederates:
would be ruined, and the Thebans grow povv^erful; that Philip,
would make himfelf Mafter of Thrace, and raife Fortreffes
againll you in Eub^a, with a certainty that every thing, which.
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hath fince happened, was really to happen, yet you could have
been well contented to conclude this Peace, then let i^^fchlnes
be acquitted, and do not add Perjury to fucli Inftances of
Bafenefs. He hath committed no Injury againft you, but I
was tranfported by Madnefs and Extrav^agance, when I accufcd
him. But if on the contrary, your Ambafladors afTured you,
with many and the moft foothing Expreflions, " that Philip
' had an Affedlion for the Republic; would prefcrve the
' Phoc? eans; reprefs the Infolence of the Thebans; confer
' Benefits upon you far greater than any, that regarded Am-
' phipolis, and if you granted him a Peace, would reftore
' Eubzeaand Oropus to you;" if by making thefe Declarations
and Promifes they have deceived and impofed upon you in every
Inftance, and only not delivered up Attica to the Enemy, let
them be condemned ; nor in Addition to the ignominious Inju-
ries (I know not any other Expreflion for them) you have already
fufFered by tlieir being corrupted, carry home with you the
Horrors of Execration and Perjury.
Consider befides, O Men of Athens, from what Motive, if
they indeed are innocent, I have undertaken to accufe them.
You fhall find no fuch Motive. Is it plcafing to have
many Enemies? It is not even without Danger. " But I had
^' fome perfonal Quarrel with i^llchines. " None. " Did you
" then tremble for you rfelf, Demofthenes, and in your Fearful -
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" nefs, imagine this Profecution your only Security. " I have
heard, he ventures even this Extravagance. But in Truth,
/Efchines, there was nothing terrible; there was no Guilt, as
you afiert. If ever he fays this again, confid'er, you who are our
Judges, if I, who am totally innocent,, was alarmed with
Terrors of being deftroyed by thde Traitors, what Punifhment
ought they to fuffer, who are totally guilty? Since not for
thefe Reafons, yet for what other do I accule you ? *^' I calum -
" niate, in the Name of Jupiter! that I may extort Money from
" you. " Yet were it not more elegible to have taken it from
Philip (who gave it in Abundance) and not in lefs Sums, than
any of them received, efpecially when I might thus prcferve his
Friendfhip and theii's? Undoubtedly, moft undoubtedly, I
fhould have preferved their Feiendfliip, if I had entered into
their Schemes, for they had no paternal, ancient Quarrel to mCj. .
and only refented my not engaging in their Projects. Were
not this more eligible, than to demand a fordid Pittance of the
Bribes they had received, and thus make both Philip and them,
my Enemies ? Did I then, at fuch. Expencc,. out of my own
private Fortune, ranfom our Fellow-Citizens, and could I
meanly condefcend to take this wretched Pittance from them,
and attended with their Hatred too ? Impoflible. But all the
Reports I made to you werp true; I reftrained myfelf from taking
Prcfcnts, in a Senfe of Juftice, and of Truth, and a regard to
my future Life ; imagining, that I, like fome other of your
Citizens,
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Citizens, if I maintained my Integrity, might be honoured by
you, and diftinguiflied above the Vulgar, and that I never fhould
exchange my Zeal for your Service for any pofiible Advantage.
But I hated thefe AmbaiTadors, becaufe I fiivv them ading ini-
quitoufly towards you, and impioufly to the Gods in their
Embafly ; becaufe I was deprived, by their rapacious Corruption,
of the Honours I perfonally merited, while you treated the whole
Embafly with equal Indignation. But looking forward to Futu-
rity, and willing that you fhould determine in this Trial, and
at this Tribunal, that our Adions were totally different, I now
accufe, and fummon them to render the ufual Account of their
Conduct. I am, however, apprehenfive, greatly apprehenfive,
(for all my Thoughts fhall be laid before you) that you then
included me, though perfectly guiltlefs, in the Sufpicion of
their Crimes, and are now extremely inattentive to my Inno-
cence. For to me you appear, O Men of Athens, abfolutely
diflblved in Indoleace and expecting your Misfortunes witli
IndifTerence. When you behold others labouring in Diftrefs,
you are neither concerned for their Safety, nor anxious for the
Republic, that hath been long injured in fo various and outra-
gious a Manner. Do you not think it terrible and monftrous
what I am going to relate? for although I had determined to-
be filent, yet I am forced to fpeak. You all know Pythocles.
I had long lived with him in every Kind of Intimacy, nor did:
any thing unfriendly ever happen between us even to this Day.
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But fince he returned from this Embafly to PhiHp, he avoids mc
upon all Occalions ; or if he be compelled accidentally ro meet
me, he ftarts away, left any one fhonld fee him fpeaking to me.
Yet he walks round the Forum with M^chmts^ confults with
him, and enters into his Schemes. Is it not then provoking,
O Men of Athens; is it not a miferable Reflexion that Philip
fliould be fo attentive both to the Friendfhip and Enmity of
thofe, who engage in his Service, as that each of them believes
he perfe6lly knows all their Adtions here, as if he were perfonally
prefcnt ; that they efteem thofe Ferfons their Friends or Enemies,
whom he regards with Friendfhip or Enmity, yet, on the con-
trary, that they, who live only for your Welfare; who are
ambitious only of thofe Honours, which you can beftow, and
of which they never deferted the Purfuit, fliould meet among
you with fuch obftinate Deafnefs in hearing, and fuch Blindnefs
in feeing, as that I fliould be compelled at this Moment to
hold a contefl: with thefe execrable Villains upon equal Terms,
and before an Audience, perfedly confcious of their Crimes ?
Are you willing to hear and be convinced, from what Caufe
thefe Diforders arifc ? I will inform you. But be not angry
with me, I befeech you, for declaring the Truth. As Philip
hath one Body, fo I really think he hath only one Soul. With
all his Heart he loves whoever obliges him; with all his Heart
he detefts whoever oppofcs him. But a Citizen of Athens never
efteems
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efleems the Man, who is fcrviceable to the Republic, as doing
him any perfonal ObUgation, or thinks himfelf injured by thofc,
who injure the Commonwealth. Every Man hath fome parti-
cular Paffion, Pity, Envy, Refentment, a Deiire of obliging
whoever afks a Favour, and a thoufand others, by which you are
frequently mifled. (38) Yet thefe particular, and feparate
Errours, advancing by Degrees, fall at laft in one colledled
Ruin on the Republic. Do not therefore, O Men of Athens,
again commit fuch Errors, nor acquit the Man, by whom you
have been thus egregioufly injured.
Yet what will be tlie general Language of Mankind, if you
acquit him ? '* Philocrates, ^fchines, Phrynon, Demofthenes,
" went from Athens, as Ambafladors to Philip. " What then?
" the laft, beQdes not receiving any Emolument from his Em-
" bafly, out of his own Fortune redeemed his Fellow- Citizens,
" v^hile ^fchines wandered through Greece, purchafing
" Harlots and FiiK, with that very Money, for which he fold
" the Interefts of the Republic ; and the polluted Phrynon fent
'' his
(38) A Sentence, that appears in all ti-fadion, he may form his own Judge-
our Editions, is here left oyt of the ment of the Meaning of the Paflage by
Tranflation. It is not only unintelH- the following Iranflations. E fe un
gible, but unprofitably breaks the Senfe ftigge, tutti gli a'. lri JJmftri, almeno ncn
and Connexion of the whole Period. f^<o egli fuggir color o, i quali non vcgli-
Whcre Doftor Taylor acknowledges his ono^ che mnn fta tale. Quod fi quis cs-
Doubts, the Tranflator may without tera qureque efiugiat, eos, qui ncmineni,
Shame acknowledge his Ignorance. How. - vtllent ejufmodi cITe, certe non eiFug'ee;.
ever, to give the Reader all poffible Sar
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" his Son, not yet arrived at Manhood, to PhiHp. But De-
" mofthenes a6led not in any thing unworthy of the RepubHc,
" orofhimfelF. For, as when he was ^dile, and appointed a
" Trierarch for Equipment of the Fleet, hegenerouHy fupport-
" ed the Expence of thofe Employments, fo in this Inftance
" he thought it his Duty voluntarily to expend his Fortune jn
*' ranfoming Prifoners, and not to fuffer his Fellow-Citizens
" through Indigence to continue in Mifery. But ^fchines,
" fo far from purchafing at his own Expence a fingle Perfon's
" Freedom, affifted Philip in reducing a whole Province, and
*' makino- the Troops of our Confederates, more than ten
" thoufand Foot with almoft a thoufand Horfe, Prifoners of
<' War. " What was the Confequence? " The Athenian
*' People (who were perfectly convinced of their Guilt) having
*' brought them to their Trial" What then? " They ac-
" quitted the Traitors, vvho had received Bribes and Prefents;
t' who had difhonoured themfelves, the Republic, and their
" Pofterity. They adjudged, that they had a6ted with Wifdom,
" and that the Common-wealth was profperoufly conducted
*' under their Adminiftration. " But their Accufer? " Was
" an extravagant Vifionary; knew not the Temper of his Fel-
" low-Citizens; had no other Manner oflavifhing away his
" Fortune. "
Who then, O Men of Athens, when he beholds this Ex-
ample, will ever be anxious to preferve his Integrity ? Who
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will be an Ambaflador for nothing, if he, who prefervcs him-
felf uncorrupted, hath no more Confidence with you, than
thefe Receivers of Bribes? Thus, you do not only, this Day,
pronounce Sentence upon thefe Traitors ; but you eftablidi a
Law for all fucceeding Time, to determine, whether your
future Ambafladors fhall infamoufly fupport the Interefts of
yotir Enemies for a Penfion, or for nothing and unpenfioned
confult the Utility of the Republic. With regard to all other
Particulars, you can have no Occafion for Evidence, but to
prove, that Phrynon fent his Son to PhiHp, call me the Wit-
nefles of that Affair.
The Witnesses.
^ffiscHiNEs, therefore, hath not accufed Plirynon of having
fent his Son to Philip for the infamous Purpofes of Proftitution ;
but if another, in his Youth excelling in the Beauty of his
Perfon, and not forefeeing the Sufpicions, that naturally attend
on Beauty, hath perhaps Hved a little too Hcentioufly, this Man
iEfchines indidled for Impurity of Manners.
I SHALL now fpeak to the Invitation I made our Ambafladors
to a Banquet in the Prytan^um, and to the Decree I propofed
on that Occafion; for this Affair, which I ought particularly to
have mentioned, had very nearly efcaped my Memory. With
regard to the firft Embafly, when I had written the Decree of
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the Senate, and afterwards that of the People (while In thofe
Affemblies, in which you were to deliberate upon the Peace,
there were yet no Sufpicions of their Condud rumoured abroad,
nor any apparent Injury committed by them) according to the
Ufages eftablifhed by Law, I pronounced their Panegyric, and
invited them to the Prytanacum. Befides, I confefs I entertained
Philip's Ambafladors moft hofpitably ; indeed, O Men of
Athens, moft fplendidly. For having obferved in Macedonia,
that they gloried in the Luxury of fuch Entertainments, as
Objedis of Happinefs and Splendor, I inftantly thought myfelf
obliged to aflume a Superiority over them, and to difplay a
greater Spirit of Magnificence. But uSfchines will urge it as an
Objecftion, and exclaim, " Demofthenes himfelf pronounced
*' our Panegyric; Demofthenes entertained Philip's Ambafta-
dors," but without diftinguifhing the Date of thefe Fads.
They happened, however, before the Republic was injured;
before thefe Traitors had apparently fold themfelves; when
Philip's Ambafladors were but juft arrived, and the People were
yet to hear their Propofals ; when ^(chines had not openly
pleaded the Caufe of Philocrates, and when he himfelf had not
propofed his Decree. If he urges thefe Objedions, do you
remember the Date of thefe Tranfadlions ; that they preceded
their Crimes, and that afterwards I never had any Society with
them, any Communication. Read the Evidence>>
The Evidence>>
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But perhaps his Brothers, Philocrates, and Aphobetus will
undertake his Defence ; to both of whom you may return a
very full and reafonable Reply ; but it is neceflary to fpeak with
Freedom, and without referve. " We are not ignorant that you,
** Philocrates, are a Painter of earthen Vafes for Perfumers, and
" of Bacchanalian Cymbals; that your Brothers Aphobetus,
" and iEfchines, are public-Notaries by Profeffion, and by
" Birth of the common People (Circum fiances indeed removed
" from Infamy, but certainly not meriting any military Com-
" mand) yet we have efteemed you worthy of EmbaiTics,
" Commiflions in our Armies, and all the higheft Dignities of
the Republic. Suppofe then you never have committed a
Crime, we do not therefore owe you any Obligation, but
you are in Gratitude indebted to us for the Employments you
hold, becaufe we paffed by many others more deferving,
" and adorned you with thefe Honours. If either of you hath
" been faulty in thefe Employments, with which you were thus
" diftinguifhed, efpecially as they were of fuch Importance,
** how much rather fhould you be detefted, than acquitted? "
In my Opinion, much rather.
But they will perhaps grow violent, and being, as they are,
clamorous, and impudent, they will aflert, that defending a
Brother is always pardonable. Do not give way to this Afier-
tion, but be convinced, that as it is their Duty to be anxious
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? io8 O R A T I O N S O F
for the Safety of their Brother, fo is it yours to defend the Laws,
the whole RepubUc, and efpecially to preferve the Oaths invio-
lable, which you took before you fat upon this Tribunal. But
if they folicit you to acquit this Man, confider whether they
make the Requeft upon a Prefuinption of his appearing innocent
or guilty ? If innocent, I myfelf declare for his acquittal ; if
they defire it upon any other Terms, they defire you to perjure
yourfelves. Becaufe, although the Suffrage be given in fecret,
it does not therefore efcape the Knowledge of the Gods. For
the Legiflator, in this, and all other Inftances, mofl: excellent,
hath pronounced*, " the fuffrages fhall be given in fecret. "
Wherefore? That the Criminal may never know the Man,
to whom he is obliged. But the Gods, and the fupreme Divi-
nity will know the Man, who hath not pronounced an upright
Sentence j and it is infinitely more eligible to expert from them
our own Happinefs, and that of our Pofterity, for giving
Judgement with Juftice and Equity, than to fix a fecret and
uncertain Obligation upon the Criminal, or to acquit this Man,
who hath himfelf given Evidence againft himfelf.
