It has since been
revised and completed during a course of College
lectures given in the subsequent Michaelmas Term.
revised and completed during a course of College
lectures given in the subsequent Michaelmas Term.
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs
The first Philippic and the Olynthiacs of Demosthenes / with introduction
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Demosthenes.
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THE FIRST PHILIPPIC & THE OLYNTHIACS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
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? A H M O 26 E N O T Z
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THE FIRST PHILIPPIC
AND
THE OLYNTHIACS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
WTTHINTRODUQHUN
AND CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
BY
JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, LITT. D. , F. B. A.
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Revised and reprinted 1910
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? PREFACE
THE Philippic Orations of Demosthenes, so far as they
are certainly genuine, are eight in number, all of
them belonging to the ten years between 351 and
341 B. C. These eight orations fall into two groups,
parted from one another by the Peace of Philocrates
in 346. The first group contains the First Philippic
and the Three Olynthiacs ; the second, the Speech 0n
the Peace, the Second Philippic, the Speech 0n the
Chersonesus, and the Third Philippic.
The present work is a first instalment of an
edition of the eight Philippic Orations which I under-
took to prepare in February 1895. Nearly the
whole of this volume was prepared for the press
in the Long Vacation of 1896. It has since been
revised and completed during a course of College
lectures given in the subsequent Michaelmas Term.
It is now published in the hope of its proving useful
to students, whether in the Universities or in the
higher forms of public Schools.
The Introduction includes a sketch of the geography
and early history of Macedonia ; a brief review of the
careers of Demosthenes and Philip down to the date
of the First Philippic ; and an analysis and summary
of that Speech and of the Three Olynthiacs, with some
discussion of the date of the former and the order of
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the latter. It also touches on the textual criticism
of Demosthenes, with special reference to the evidence
of the MSS, the degree of importance to be attached
to citations and imitations by later writers, and to
certain laws of oratorical composition. It closes with
a conspectus of the literature of the subject, in the
form of a select list of editions, dissertations, and
works of reference.
The text, though founded mainly on that of Dindorf
as revised by Blass in the Teubner edition of 1885,
not unfrequently departs from it, not only in cases
where the editor has himself abandoned it, but also
in others where the evidence of the MSS seems too
strong to be overruled. Special attention has been
paid to the punctuation; and, in OZ. 3 ? 6, rmer
cee? Nel and To AYNATo'N has been printed for the
first time in a distinctive type, to show that it is
virtually a quotation and not the language of Demo-
sthenes himself.
The critical notes aim at supplying a conspectus of
the more important various readings and of other
evidence bearing on the text. It is hardly necessary
to state that much has been done for the textual
criticism of Demosthenes since the publication of the
Ziirich edition by Baiter and Sauppe in 1850. In
preparing these notes I have used the facsimile of the
Paris MS, also the critical edition of Voemel (1857),
and the Cmnmentarius Criticus of Blass in the three
volumes of the Teubner text (1885--9). In the
present speeches there is little room for conjectural
emendation. In OZ. 1 ? 3 I have proposed O'dJeTep [--
0'711'GL Kai rapaowroioil'rat fOI' the probably COI'I'llpt
Tpe? l/fq'l'al. wk, but neither this proposal, nor one
due to a Greek correspondent at Athens, is as satis-
factory as a more recent suggestion, Kama--rpe? 'pqmi.
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? PREFACE vii
In writing the explanatory notes I have constantly
consulted the French edition of Weil and the German
editions of \Vestermann and Rehdantz as revised by
Rosenberg and Blass respectively. After completing
the first draft of my commentary, I have occasionally
referred to several other editions, and mentioned any
points that appeared to deserve notice in them.
Except in points of rhetoric, which are a distinctive
feature of the commentary of Rehdantz, but are
perhaps best reserved for oral exposition, I have
aimed at giving rather more space to points of detail
than is customary in the current editions. Special
attention has naturally been paid to the distinctive
characteristics Of the Greek of Demosthenes and
to the citation of parallel passages from the Attic
Orators in general. For the Syntax of the Greek
Verb references are given to Goodwin's Moods and
Tenses (ed. 1889), and the results of some recent
investigations on points of Demosthenic Syntax have
been summarised and made accessible to English
readers. Notes intended mainly for advanced
students are usually printed in smaller type.
Among these is a suggestive note on the festival-
fund (OZ. 1 ? 19) for which I am indebted to Mr.
Leonard Whibley, Fellow and Lecturer of Pembroke
College, Cambridge. I may here add that, in the
final revision of the proofs in general, I owe much
to the skill and accuracy of the Reader on the staff
of Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh.
On the general history of the period, While I am
fully conscious of the varied merits of the works of
Thirlwall, Curtius, Holm and Beloch, I have found
no better guide than Grote, whose judgment on
political and economic questions at Athens gains
additional weight from his experience as a banker
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and as a Member of Parliament. Readers of his
I/ife may remember that, writing to Sir George
Cornewall Lewis in July 1852, he says: 'I am now
in the midst of the Philippics and Olg/nthiacs of Demo-
sthenes. No part of the History has been more
irksome to write, because of the total want of good
historical witnesses. ' In matters of chronology and
other questions bearing on the life and times of the
orator, I have naturally made much use of the more
recent work of Arnold Schaefer, Demosthenes und seine
Zeil. But I hold (with others) that the Athenian
expedition to Euboea which he assigns to 350 13. 0.
is better placed two years later, i. e. after instead of
before the date usually assigned for the delivery of
the Olynthiacs (349 B. C. ) I may here recall with
gratitude the help and the encouragement in the
study of the Attic Orators that I have derived not
only from scholars at home, such as Professor J ebb,
but also from scholars abroad, Rudolf Rauchenst-ein
of Aarau (1798-1879), Arnold Schaefer of Bonn
(1819--1883), Friedrich Blass, now of Halle, and
M. Rodolphe Dareste of Paris.
The deliberative or parliamentary speeches of
Demosthenes, though prompted in each case by the
immediate crisis, are all alike pervaded by one
dominant idea, that Athens was the natural leader
of Hellas, that she was bound to guard Hellenic
interests against foreign aggression, and that her
imperial position could only be maintained by
personal sacrifices and personal service on the part
of her citizens. Of the political speeches which the
orator delivered between 340 and 338 13. 0. , when
he had attained the height of his power, and actually
succeeded in uniting Athens and Thebes against
Philip, not one has survived. The public utterances
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? PREFA CE ix
of this period were immediately translated into acts,
and in the storm and stress of a time of crisis, there
was little opportunity, and perhaps no political need,
for their preservation, when they had once accom-
plished their purpose. It is the parliamentary -
speeches of the earlier time,- when the orator was
gradually winning his way to a commanding position--
speeches which were in general not crowned by any
practical result--that have descended to posterity,
probably because they were reproduced immediately
after their delivery, and widely circulated with a
view to the formation of public opinion on the great
questions of the day.
Though as a rule unsuccessful in their immediate
purpose, these speeches have been universally recog-
nised as masterpieces of eloquence. Nor are they
wanting in the element of abiding interest in
modern times.
It has since been
revised and completed during a course of College
lectures given in the subsequent Michaelmas Term.
It is now published in the hope of its proving useful
to students, whether in the Universities or in the
higher forms of public Schools.
The Introduction includes a sketch of the geography
and early history of Macedonia ; a brief review of the
careers of Demosthenes and Philip down to the date
of the First Philippic ; and an analysis and summary
of that Speech and of the Three Olynthiacs, with some
discussion of the date of the former and the order of
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the latter. It also touches on the textual criticism
of Demosthenes, with special reference to the evidence
of the MSS, the degree of importance to be attached
to citations and imitations by later writers, and to
certain laws of oratorical composition. It closes with
a conspectus of the literature of the subject, in the
form of a select list of editions, dissertations, and
works of reference.
The text, though founded mainly on that of Dindorf
as revised by Blass in the Teubner edition of 1885,
not unfrequently departs from it, not only in cases
where the editor has himself abandoned it, but also
in others where the evidence of the MSS seems too
strong to be overruled. Special attention has been
paid to the punctuation; and, in OZ. 3 ? 6, rmer
cee? Nel and To AYNATo'N has been printed for the
first time in a distinctive type, to show that it is
virtually a quotation and not the language of Demo-
sthenes himself.
The critical notes aim at supplying a conspectus of
the more important various readings and of other
evidence bearing on the text. It is hardly necessary
to state that much has been done for the textual
criticism of Demosthenes since the publication of the
Ziirich edition by Baiter and Sauppe in 1850. In
preparing these notes I have used the facsimile of the
Paris MS, also the critical edition of Voemel (1857),
and the Cmnmentarius Criticus of Blass in the three
volumes of the Teubner text (1885--9). In the
present speeches there is little room for conjectural
emendation. In OZ. 1 ? 3 I have proposed O'dJeTep [--
0'711'GL Kai rapaowroioil'rat fOI' the probably COI'I'llpt
Tpe? l/fq'l'al. wk, but neither this proposal, nor one
due to a Greek correspondent at Athens, is as satis-
factory as a more recent suggestion, Kama--rpe? 'pqmi.
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? PREFACE vii
In writing the explanatory notes I have constantly
consulted the French edition of Weil and the German
editions of \Vestermann and Rehdantz as revised by
Rosenberg and Blass respectively. After completing
the first draft of my commentary, I have occasionally
referred to several other editions, and mentioned any
points that appeared to deserve notice in them.
Except in points of rhetoric, which are a distinctive
feature of the commentary of Rehdantz, but are
perhaps best reserved for oral exposition, I have
aimed at giving rather more space to points of detail
than is customary in the current editions. Special
attention has naturally been paid to the distinctive
characteristics Of the Greek of Demosthenes and
to the citation of parallel passages from the Attic
Orators in general. For the Syntax of the Greek
Verb references are given to Goodwin's Moods and
Tenses (ed. 1889), and the results of some recent
investigations on points of Demosthenic Syntax have
been summarised and made accessible to English
readers. Notes intended mainly for advanced
students are usually printed in smaller type.
Among these is a suggestive note on the festival-
fund (OZ. 1 ? 19) for which I am indebted to Mr.
Leonard Whibley, Fellow and Lecturer of Pembroke
College, Cambridge. I may here add that, in the
final revision of the proofs in general, I owe much
to the skill and accuracy of the Reader on the staff
of Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh.
On the general history of the period, While I am
fully conscious of the varied merits of the works of
Thirlwall, Curtius, Holm and Beloch, I have found
no better guide than Grote, whose judgment on
political and economic questions at Athens gains
additional weight from his experience as a banker
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and as a Member of Parliament. Readers of his
I/ife may remember that, writing to Sir George
Cornewall Lewis in July 1852, he says: 'I am now
in the midst of the Philippics and Olg/nthiacs of Demo-
sthenes. No part of the History has been more
irksome to write, because of the total want of good
historical witnesses. ' In matters of chronology and
other questions bearing on the life and times of the
orator, I have naturally made much use of the more
recent work of Arnold Schaefer, Demosthenes und seine
Zeil. But I hold (with others) that the Athenian
expedition to Euboea which he assigns to 350 13. 0.
is better placed two years later, i. e. after instead of
before the date usually assigned for the delivery of
the Olynthiacs (349 B. C. ) I may here recall with
gratitude the help and the encouragement in the
study of the Attic Orators that I have derived not
only from scholars at home, such as Professor J ebb,
but also from scholars abroad, Rudolf Rauchenst-ein
of Aarau (1798-1879), Arnold Schaefer of Bonn
(1819--1883), Friedrich Blass, now of Halle, and
M. Rodolphe Dareste of Paris.
The deliberative or parliamentary speeches of
Demosthenes, though prompted in each case by the
immediate crisis, are all alike pervaded by one
dominant idea, that Athens was the natural leader
of Hellas, that she was bound to guard Hellenic
interests against foreign aggression, and that her
imperial position could only be maintained by
personal sacrifices and personal service on the part
of her citizens. Of the political speeches which the
orator delivered between 340 and 338 13. 0. , when
he had attained the height of his power, and actually
succeeded in uniting Athens and Thebes against
Philip, not one has survived. The public utterances
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? PREFA CE ix
of this period were immediately translated into acts,
and in the storm and stress of a time of crisis, there
was little opportunity, and perhaps no political need,
for their preservation, when they had once accom-
plished their purpose. It is the parliamentary -
speeches of the earlier time,- when the orator was
gradually winning his way to a commanding position--
speeches which were in general not crowned by any
practical result--that have descended to posterity,
probably because they were reproduced immediately
after their delivery, and widely circulated with a
view to the formation of public opinion on the great
questions of the day.
Though as a rule unsuccessful in their immediate
purpose, these speeches have been universally recog-
nised as masterpieces of eloquence. Nor are they
wanting in the element of abiding interest in
modern times. The earliest work of Niebuhr was
an anonymous translation of the First Philippic,
published at Hamburg in 1805 with a dedication
to the Tzar of Russia and a comparison of Philip
to Napoleon Bonaparte. The same comparison in-
spires the preface to the contemporary translation
of all the public speeches by Jacobs. At Berlin in
September 1813 Boeckh discoursed dc Demosthenis
Philippicae primae loco (4 , 7, 8), pmese'nti patriae
statui aptissimo, and, after translating the passage in
question, he adds 2---
ex huiusmodi orationibus intell'igas, quantum apud
Britannos, Germanorum afines nostrosque mmc socios, ad
formandns o'ratm-es et rims reipubh'cae ge'rendae aptos Demo-
sthenis lectio studiosa cowferat.
Turning to our own country, I may add that
Lord Brougham's criticisms on Demosthenes are
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familiar to leading scholars abroad ; and, in a speech
delivered in Edinburgh on 18th January 1854, the
first Lord Lytton observes :--
'All men in modern times, famous for their eloquence,
' have taken Demosthenes as their model. Many speakers
in our own country have literally translated passages from
his orations, and produced electrical effects upon sober
English senators by thoughts first uttered to passionate
Athenian crowds. '
While Demosthenes, in his First Philippic (4 ? 25),
describes the military officers of Athens as most of
them staying at home, and only marching in festal
processions through the marketplace, the elder Pitt,
in his speech on the reduction of the Land Forces
(4th Feb. 1738), says in a similar spirit :--
'As for the soldiers, I believe it may be said of at
least three-fourths of them, that they never went under
any fatigue except that of a review. '
In the course of a speech in the debate on the
Russian armament (1st March 1792) we find the
effective reply of Fox to an 'honourable gentleman '
(Mr. Grant), who ' to illustrate the value of Oczakow '
at the mouth of the Dnieper, then regarded as the
key of Constantinople, 'went back . . to the days of
Philip and Demosthenes' by referring to a passage
in the Fourth Philippio 8), in which
'Demosthenes, urging the Athenians to make war on
Philip, reproached them with inattention to a few towns
he had taken, the names of which they scarcely knew,
telling them that those towns were the keys by which he
would in time invade and overcome Greece. '
Passages of a thoroughly Demosthenic type, though
too long to quote, may be found in the speeches of
the younger Pitt, on the motion for augmenting the
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national force in case of invasion (18th Oct. 1796;
Pitt's Parliamentary Speeches ii 195); on the general
defence bill (2nd June 1801 ; iii 301 f); and on the
volunteer regulation bill (27th Feb. 1804 ; iii 307 f).
Even in recent times the orator's description of the
weakness, and his expectation of the impending fall,
of a dominion 'founded' (like that of Macedonia)
' on oppression and falsehood and perjury ' (OZ. 2 ? 9)
--language which may possibly have been partially
justified by the facts, but was certainly not con-
firmed by subsequent events--finds its closest verbal
parallel in the repeated criticisms of English states- ,
men on the 'crumbling fabric' of the Turkish
Empire. Lastly, as recently as 28th October 1896,
at the opening of a Unionist club at Gateshead, the
Marquis of Londonderry, in speaking of the ' necessity
of political education,' concluded by commending,
as a text upon which Unionists might appeal to the
people, the words of Demosthenes, 'In God's name,
I beg of you to think' (Thde Philippa; ? 43 Myl-
{ean 81" 1. 7069 666v).
CAMBRIDGE,
)llarch 1 897
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? CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION erE
I Life of Demosthenes from 384 to 351 B. C. xv--xxvii
II illacedonia before the reign of Philip . xxvii--xxxiv
III The reign of Philip, down to 351 13. 0. . xxxiv--xlv
IV The First Philipptc of Demosthenes . xlv-lii
V The Olyn/thiacs of Demosthenes . . lii--lxiii
VI The order of the Olynthiaes . . . lxiii--lxvii
VII The close of the Olynthian war . . lxvii--lxix
VIII 0n the evidence for the Tent . . . lxix--lxxiv
IX Select List of Editions, Dissertations, and
Books of Reference . . . . lxxiv-lxxviii
X List of the principal abbreviations used
in the Notes . . . . . lxxx
GREEK TEXT wrrn CRITICAL NOTES . . . 1--69
EXPLANATORY NOTES . . . . . . 71-224
GREEK INDEX . . . . . . . 225-239
ENGLISH INDEX . . . . . . . 241-246
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Demosthenes.
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? (Illazziral fining
THE FIRST PHILIPPIC & THE OLYNTHIACS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
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? A H M O 26 E N O T Z
KATA ? 1Alnno'r A oA'rNelAKol A B r
THE FIRST PHILIPPIC
AND
THE OLYNTHIACS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
WTTHINTRODUQHUN
AND CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
BY
JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, LITT. D. , F. B. A.
FELLOW AND LATE TUTOR OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNl'VERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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? First 5112711111 1897. Refirz'nted 1898, 1905
Revised and reprinted 1910
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? PREFACE
THE Philippic Orations of Demosthenes, so far as they
are certainly genuine, are eight in number, all of
them belonging to the ten years between 351 and
341 B. C. These eight orations fall into two groups,
parted from one another by the Peace of Philocrates
in 346. The first group contains the First Philippic
and the Three Olynthiacs ; the second, the Speech 0n
the Peace, the Second Philippic, the Speech 0n the
Chersonesus, and the Third Philippic.
The present work is a first instalment of an
edition of the eight Philippic Orations which I under-
took to prepare in February 1895. Nearly the
whole of this volume was prepared for the press
in the Long Vacation of 1896. It has since been
revised and completed during a course of College
lectures given in the subsequent Michaelmas Term.
It is now published in the hope of its proving useful
to students, whether in the Universities or in the
higher forms of public Schools.
The Introduction includes a sketch of the geography
and early history of Macedonia ; a brief review of the
careers of Demosthenes and Philip down to the date
of the First Philippic ; and an analysis and summary
of that Speech and of the Three Olynthiacs, with some
discussion of the date of the former and the order of
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the latter. It also touches on the textual criticism
of Demosthenes, with special reference to the evidence
of the MSS, the degree of importance to be attached
to citations and imitations by later writers, and to
certain laws of oratorical composition. It closes with
a conspectus of the literature of the subject, in the
form of a select list of editions, dissertations, and
works of reference.
The text, though founded mainly on that of Dindorf
as revised by Blass in the Teubner edition of 1885,
not unfrequently departs from it, not only in cases
where the editor has himself abandoned it, but also
in others where the evidence of the MSS seems too
strong to be overruled. Special attention has been
paid to the punctuation; and, in OZ. 3 ? 6, rmer
cee? Nel and To AYNATo'N has been printed for the
first time in a distinctive type, to show that it is
virtually a quotation and not the language of Demo-
sthenes himself.
The critical notes aim at supplying a conspectus of
the more important various readings and of other
evidence bearing on the text. It is hardly necessary
to state that much has been done for the textual
criticism of Demosthenes since the publication of the
Ziirich edition by Baiter and Sauppe in 1850. In
preparing these notes I have used the facsimile of the
Paris MS, also the critical edition of Voemel (1857),
and the Cmnmentarius Criticus of Blass in the three
volumes of the Teubner text (1885--9). In the
present speeches there is little room for conjectural
emendation. In OZ. 1 ? 3 I have proposed O'dJeTep [--
0'711'GL Kai rapaowroioil'rat fOI' the probably COI'I'llpt
Tpe? l/fq'l'al. wk, but neither this proposal, nor one
due to a Greek correspondent at Athens, is as satis-
factory as a more recent suggestion, Kama--rpe? 'pqmi.
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? PREFACE vii
In writing the explanatory notes I have constantly
consulted the French edition of Weil and the German
editions of \Vestermann and Rehdantz as revised by
Rosenberg and Blass respectively. After completing
the first draft of my commentary, I have occasionally
referred to several other editions, and mentioned any
points that appeared to deserve notice in them.
Except in points of rhetoric, which are a distinctive
feature of the commentary of Rehdantz, but are
perhaps best reserved for oral exposition, I have
aimed at giving rather more space to points of detail
than is customary in the current editions. Special
attention has naturally been paid to the distinctive
characteristics Of the Greek of Demosthenes and
to the citation of parallel passages from the Attic
Orators in general. For the Syntax of the Greek
Verb references are given to Goodwin's Moods and
Tenses (ed. 1889), and the results of some recent
investigations on points of Demosthenic Syntax have
been summarised and made accessible to English
readers. Notes intended mainly for advanced
students are usually printed in smaller type.
Among these is a suggestive note on the festival-
fund (OZ. 1 ? 19) for which I am indebted to Mr.
Leonard Whibley, Fellow and Lecturer of Pembroke
College, Cambridge. I may here add that, in the
final revision of the proofs in general, I owe much
to the skill and accuracy of the Reader on the staff
of Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh.
On the general history of the period, While I am
fully conscious of the varied merits of the works of
Thirlwall, Curtius, Holm and Beloch, I have found
no better guide than Grote, whose judgment on
political and economic questions at Athens gains
additional weight from his experience as a banker
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and as a Member of Parliament. Readers of his
I/ife may remember that, writing to Sir George
Cornewall Lewis in July 1852, he says: 'I am now
in the midst of the Philippics and Olg/nthiacs of Demo-
sthenes. No part of the History has been more
irksome to write, because of the total want of good
historical witnesses. ' In matters of chronology and
other questions bearing on the life and times of the
orator, I have naturally made much use of the more
recent work of Arnold Schaefer, Demosthenes und seine
Zeil. But I hold (with others) that the Athenian
expedition to Euboea which he assigns to 350 13. 0.
is better placed two years later, i. e. after instead of
before the date usually assigned for the delivery of
the Olynthiacs (349 B. C. ) I may here recall with
gratitude the help and the encouragement in the
study of the Attic Orators that I have derived not
only from scholars at home, such as Professor J ebb,
but also from scholars abroad, Rudolf Rauchenst-ein
of Aarau (1798-1879), Arnold Schaefer of Bonn
(1819--1883), Friedrich Blass, now of Halle, and
M. Rodolphe Dareste of Paris.
The deliberative or parliamentary speeches of
Demosthenes, though prompted in each case by the
immediate crisis, are all alike pervaded by one
dominant idea, that Athens was the natural leader
of Hellas, that she was bound to guard Hellenic
interests against foreign aggression, and that her
imperial position could only be maintained by
personal sacrifices and personal service on the part
of her citizens. Of the political speeches which the
orator delivered between 340 and 338 13. 0. , when
he had attained the height of his power, and actually
succeeded in uniting Athens and Thebes against
Philip, not one has survived. The public utterances
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? PREFA CE ix
of this period were immediately translated into acts,
and in the storm and stress of a time of crisis, there
was little opportunity, and perhaps no political need,
for their preservation, when they had once accom-
plished their purpose. It is the parliamentary -
speeches of the earlier time,- when the orator was
gradually winning his way to a commanding position--
speeches which were in general not crowned by any
practical result--that have descended to posterity,
probably because they were reproduced immediately
after their delivery, and widely circulated with a
view to the formation of public opinion on the great
questions of the day.
Though as a rule unsuccessful in their immediate
purpose, these speeches have been universally recog-
nised as masterpieces of eloquence. Nor are they
wanting in the element of abiding interest in
modern times.
It has since been
revised and completed during a course of College
lectures given in the subsequent Michaelmas Term.
It is now published in the hope of its proving useful
to students, whether in the Universities or in the
higher forms of public Schools.
The Introduction includes a sketch of the geography
and early history of Macedonia ; a brief review of the
careers of Demosthenes and Philip down to the date
of the First Philippic ; and an analysis and summary
of that Speech and of the Three Olynthiacs, with some
discussion of the date of the former and the order of
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the latter. It also touches on the textual criticism
of Demosthenes, with special reference to the evidence
of the MSS, the degree of importance to be attached
to citations and imitations by later writers, and to
certain laws of oratorical composition. It closes with
a conspectus of the literature of the subject, in the
form of a select list of editions, dissertations, and
works of reference.
The text, though founded mainly on that of Dindorf
as revised by Blass in the Teubner edition of 1885,
not unfrequently departs from it, not only in cases
where the editor has himself abandoned it, but also
in others where the evidence of the MSS seems too
strong to be overruled. Special attention has been
paid to the punctuation; and, in OZ. 3 ? 6, rmer
cee? Nel and To AYNATo'N has been printed for the
first time in a distinctive type, to show that it is
virtually a quotation and not the language of Demo-
sthenes himself.
The critical notes aim at supplying a conspectus of
the more important various readings and of other
evidence bearing on the text. It is hardly necessary
to state that much has been done for the textual
criticism of Demosthenes since the publication of the
Ziirich edition by Baiter and Sauppe in 1850. In
preparing these notes I have used the facsimile of the
Paris MS, also the critical edition of Voemel (1857),
and the Cmnmentarius Criticus of Blass in the three
volumes of the Teubner text (1885--9). In the
present speeches there is little room for conjectural
emendation. In OZ. 1 ? 3 I have proposed O'dJeTep [--
0'711'GL Kai rapaowroioil'rat fOI' the probably COI'I'llpt
Tpe? l/fq'l'al. wk, but neither this proposal, nor one
due to a Greek correspondent at Athens, is as satis-
factory as a more recent suggestion, Kama--rpe? 'pqmi.
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? PREFACE vii
In writing the explanatory notes I have constantly
consulted the French edition of Weil and the German
editions of \Vestermann and Rehdantz as revised by
Rosenberg and Blass respectively. After completing
the first draft of my commentary, I have occasionally
referred to several other editions, and mentioned any
points that appeared to deserve notice in them.
Except in points of rhetoric, which are a distinctive
feature of the commentary of Rehdantz, but are
perhaps best reserved for oral exposition, I have
aimed at giving rather more space to points of detail
than is customary in the current editions. Special
attention has naturally been paid to the distinctive
characteristics Of the Greek of Demosthenes and
to the citation of parallel passages from the Attic
Orators in general. For the Syntax of the Greek
Verb references are given to Goodwin's Moods and
Tenses (ed. 1889), and the results of some recent
investigations on points of Demosthenic Syntax have
been summarised and made accessible to English
readers. Notes intended mainly for advanced
students are usually printed in smaller type.
Among these is a suggestive note on the festival-
fund (OZ. 1 ? 19) for which I am indebted to Mr.
Leonard Whibley, Fellow and Lecturer of Pembroke
College, Cambridge. I may here add that, in the
final revision of the proofs in general, I owe much
to the skill and accuracy of the Reader on the staff
of Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh.
On the general history of the period, While I am
fully conscious of the varied merits of the works of
Thirlwall, Curtius, Holm and Beloch, I have found
no better guide than Grote, whose judgment on
political and economic questions at Athens gains
additional weight from his experience as a banker
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and as a Member of Parliament. Readers of his
I/ife may remember that, writing to Sir George
Cornewall Lewis in July 1852, he says: 'I am now
in the midst of the Philippics and Olg/nthiacs of Demo-
sthenes. No part of the History has been more
irksome to write, because of the total want of good
historical witnesses. ' In matters of chronology and
other questions bearing on the life and times of the
orator, I have naturally made much use of the more
recent work of Arnold Schaefer, Demosthenes und seine
Zeil. But I hold (with others) that the Athenian
expedition to Euboea which he assigns to 350 13. 0.
is better placed two years later, i. e. after instead of
before the date usually assigned for the delivery of
the Olynthiacs (349 B. C. ) I may here recall with
gratitude the help and the encouragement in the
study of the Attic Orators that I have derived not
only from scholars at home, such as Professor J ebb,
but also from scholars abroad, Rudolf Rauchenst-ein
of Aarau (1798-1879), Arnold Schaefer of Bonn
(1819--1883), Friedrich Blass, now of Halle, and
M. Rodolphe Dareste of Paris.
The deliberative or parliamentary speeches of
Demosthenes, though prompted in each case by the
immediate crisis, are all alike pervaded by one
dominant idea, that Athens was the natural leader
of Hellas, that she was bound to guard Hellenic
interests against foreign aggression, and that her
imperial position could only be maintained by
personal sacrifices and personal service on the part
of her citizens. Of the political speeches which the
orator delivered between 340 and 338 13. 0. , when
he had attained the height of his power, and actually
succeeded in uniting Athens and Thebes against
Philip, not one has survived. The public utterances
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? PREFA CE ix
of this period were immediately translated into acts,
and in the storm and stress of a time of crisis, there
was little opportunity, and perhaps no political need,
for their preservation, when they had once accom-
plished their purpose. It is the parliamentary -
speeches of the earlier time,- when the orator was
gradually winning his way to a commanding position--
speeches which were in general not crowned by any
practical result--that have descended to posterity,
probably because they were reproduced immediately
after their delivery, and widely circulated with a
view to the formation of public opinion on the great
questions of the day.
Though as a rule unsuccessful in their immediate
purpose, these speeches have been universally recog-
nised as masterpieces of eloquence. Nor are they
wanting in the element of abiding interest in
modern times. The earliest work of Niebuhr was
an anonymous translation of the First Philippic,
published at Hamburg in 1805 with a dedication
to the Tzar of Russia and a comparison of Philip
to Napoleon Bonaparte. The same comparison in-
spires the preface to the contemporary translation
of all the public speeches by Jacobs. At Berlin in
September 1813 Boeckh discoursed dc Demosthenis
Philippicae primae loco (4 , 7, 8), pmese'nti patriae
statui aptissimo, and, after translating the passage in
question, he adds 2---
ex huiusmodi orationibus intell'igas, quantum apud
Britannos, Germanorum afines nostrosque mmc socios, ad
formandns o'ratm-es et rims reipubh'cae ge'rendae aptos Demo-
sthenis lectio studiosa cowferat.
Turning to our own country, I may add that
Lord Brougham's criticisms on Demosthenes are
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familiar to leading scholars abroad ; and, in a speech
delivered in Edinburgh on 18th January 1854, the
first Lord Lytton observes :--
'All men in modern times, famous for their eloquence,
' have taken Demosthenes as their model. Many speakers
in our own country have literally translated passages from
his orations, and produced electrical effects upon sober
English senators by thoughts first uttered to passionate
Athenian crowds. '
While Demosthenes, in his First Philippic (4 ? 25),
describes the military officers of Athens as most of
them staying at home, and only marching in festal
processions through the marketplace, the elder Pitt,
in his speech on the reduction of the Land Forces
(4th Feb. 1738), says in a similar spirit :--
'As for the soldiers, I believe it may be said of at
least three-fourths of them, that they never went under
any fatigue except that of a review. '
In the course of a speech in the debate on the
Russian armament (1st March 1792) we find the
effective reply of Fox to an 'honourable gentleman '
(Mr. Grant), who ' to illustrate the value of Oczakow '
at the mouth of the Dnieper, then regarded as the
key of Constantinople, 'went back . . to the days of
Philip and Demosthenes' by referring to a passage
in the Fourth Philippio 8), in which
'Demosthenes, urging the Athenians to make war on
Philip, reproached them with inattention to a few towns
he had taken, the names of which they scarcely knew,
telling them that those towns were the keys by which he
would in time invade and overcome Greece. '
Passages of a thoroughly Demosthenic type, though
too long to quote, may be found in the speeches of
the younger Pitt, on the motion for augmenting the
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national force in case of invasion (18th Oct. 1796;
Pitt's Parliamentary Speeches ii 195); on the general
defence bill (2nd June 1801 ; iii 301 f); and on the
volunteer regulation bill (27th Feb. 1804 ; iii 307 f).
Even in recent times the orator's description of the
weakness, and his expectation of the impending fall,
of a dominion 'founded' (like that of Macedonia)
' on oppression and falsehood and perjury ' (OZ. 2 ? 9)
--language which may possibly have been partially
justified by the facts, but was certainly not con-
firmed by subsequent events--finds its closest verbal
parallel in the repeated criticisms of English states- ,
men on the 'crumbling fabric' of the Turkish
Empire. Lastly, as recently as 28th October 1896,
at the opening of a Unionist club at Gateshead, the
Marquis of Londonderry, in speaking of the ' necessity
of political education,' concluded by commending,
as a text upon which Unionists might appeal to the
people, the words of Demosthenes, 'In God's name,
I beg of you to think' (Thde Philippa; ? 43 Myl-
{ean 81" 1. 7069 666v).
CAMBRIDGE,
)llarch 1 897
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? CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION erE
I Life of Demosthenes from 384 to 351 B. C. xv--xxvii
II illacedonia before the reign of Philip . xxvii--xxxiv
III The reign of Philip, down to 351 13. 0. . xxxiv--xlv
IV The First Philipptc of Demosthenes . xlv-lii
V The Olyn/thiacs of Demosthenes . . lii--lxiii
VI The order of the Olynthiaes . . . lxiii--lxvii
VII The close of the Olynthian war . . lxvii--lxix
VIII 0n the evidence for the Tent . . . lxix--lxxiv
IX Select List of Editions, Dissertations, and
Books of Reference . . . . lxxiv-lxxviii
X List of the principal abbreviations used
in the Notes . . . . . lxxx
GREEK TEXT wrrn CRITICAL NOTES . . . 1--69
EXPLANATORY NOTES . . . . . . 71-224
GREEK INDEX . . . . . . . 225-239
ENGLISH INDEX . . . . . . . 241-246
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