Yet I cannot imagine,
that our Anceftors ered;ed thefe Courts of Juftice, that you
fhould afiemblc here, and liften to thofe atrocious Calumnics>
with which we flander each other; but that we fhould legally
accufe and convidt whoever hath been guilty of any Crime
againfl: the Republic.
that our Anceftors ered;ed thefe Courts of Juftice, that you
fhould afiemblc here, and liften to thofe atrocious Calumnics>
with which we flander each other; but that we fhould legally
accufe and convidt whoever hath been guilty of any Crime
againfl: the Republic.
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Fellow-Citizens. Now read the Decree, for which I was in-
didled. Then read the Schedule of Taxes appointed by our
former Laws, and afterwards by mine.
The Decree.
Under the Archonfhip of Polycles, on the fixteenth of Sep-
tember, Demofthenes propofed a Law to the Board of Admiral-
ty, repealing all former Laws, by which the Contributions of
the Trierarchs were regulated. It was confirmed by the Senate
and People. Patrocles preferred an Indictment againft De-
mofthenes for this Violation of our Laws, and not gaining a
fifth Part of the Suffrages, was fined five hundred Drachmas.
Now produce the very honeft Taxes of our former Laws.
The Taxes.
Let fixteen Trierarchs, from twenty five Years of Age to for-
ty, be appointed for building one Galley, and let them equally
contribute to the Expence.
Now read the Taxes propofed by my Law,
The Taxes.
tET the Trierarchs be chofen, according to the Valuation of
their Eftates. If it amount to ten Talents, kt them build one
Galley ; if to more than ten Talents, let them be taxed in pro-
portion as far as building three Gallies and a Frigate ; if to lefs,
then let a Number be joined together, whofe Eftates amount
to that Sum. i
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Do I then appear to have inconfiderably relieved the Poor
from their Oppreflions, or would not the Rich have purchafed at
any Price a Power of continuing their Injuftice ? I do not
therefore only triumph in my not having yielded to their Soli-
talions, or in having been honourably acquitted when I was
indidled, but in having eftablifhed this falutary Law, and pro-
dudlive of fuch happy EfFe6ts. For during the whole Courfe
of the War, while your Expeditions were conduced according
to this new Regulation, no Trierarch ever complained of In-
juftice, or applied to you for Redrefs ; none ever" fled for Re-
fuge to the Afylum of Diana's Temple at Munychia ; none were
ever thrown into Prifon by the Comptrollers of the Navy ;
your Galleys were never taken by the Enemy, or detained in
Harbour, unable to put to Sea by not being properly equipped.
Yet all thefe Accidents often happened by your former Laws,
becaufe the Poor were incapable of paying their Taxes, i From
hence many infuperable Difficulties arofe. But I removed the
Expence of thefe Armaments from the Poor to the Rich, and
then every thing was regularly conduced. I therefore imagine,
that I am not unworthy of Pralfe, for having through my
whole Courfe of Miniftry conftantly preferred fuch Meafures,
as at once added Reputation, Honour, Strength to the Republic,
and that nothing envious, malignant, ill-natured ; nothing
abjedl, or unworthy of the Commonwealth ever appeared in
my Adminiftration. Upon thefe Principles I (hall appear to
have a(5ted, not only with Regard to your Affairs, but to the
general
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general Interefts of Greece. In Athens I preferred not the Fa-
vour of the Rich to the Jufticc due to the Poor j nor in Greece
preferred the Prefents and Amity of PhiHp to the common
Welfare of her States.
I THEREFORE imagine it only remains to fpeak. to the Procla-
mation, and the Obligation of paffmg my Accounts before I
am crowned ; becaufe I prefume I have fufficiently proved,
that I have ever aded for the Utility of the Republic ; that I
have always been zealous and ardent for its Welfare. I fhall
therefore pafs over the principal and more important Meaiures
I recommended, and carried into Execution during my Miniftry,
as I am convinced, that loughtfirft to juftify myfelf againfl: the
Charge of having violated our Laws ; and if I am filent after-
wards with regard to the refl of my Adminiftration, I believe
your Confcioufnefs will give fufficient Teftimony in my Favour.
I cannot, by the Gods, imagine, you were much informed by
the confufed and perplexed Harangue, that iEfchines made con-
cerning the Laws, he had tranfcribed, (i6) and many Farts
of it I myfelf was utterly unable to conceive. However, I Hiall
in perfect Simplicity follow the dirc6l Path in conhdering the
Juflice and LegaHty of this Decree. For fo far from aiTerting,
that I am not obliged to render an Account of my Miniflr)',
Vol. if G 2 2 as
E> G
(16) iEfichines had tranfcribed die was to be crowned. This was the Rule
Laws, that he aiTerted Ctefiphon had cfjuftice, mentioned in Page 330, by
violated, upon a Tablet, cravlhov, which which the People might difcern the Dif-
he placed in public View in Oppofition agreement between the Decree, and the
to the Decree, by which Demofthenes Laws it contradided. Tayior.
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as he hath falfely and repeatedly affirmed, that I confefs ray-
felf through my \^'hole Life accountable for whatever Employ-
ments I have held, or whatever Meafures I have recommended ;
but for what I have voluntarily given out of my own private
Fortune to the Public, I do maintain, I am at no Time liable
to account. Doft thou hear, iEfchines ? Neither I, nor any
other Citizen, although he had actually poffefled the Dignity
of one of our nine Archons. For where is the Law, fo full of
Injuftice and Inhumanity, as to deprive that Man of the grateful
Acknowledgements due to his Merit, who hath given any Part
of his Fortune to his Country; or hath performed any humane
and generous Adion ? Where is the Law, that delivers him
up to the Mercy of Calumniators, and makes them Judges of
his Liberality ? There never was fuch an inhuman Law. If
iEfchines affirms the contrary, let him produce it. I fhall
acquiefce and be filent. But in Truth, O Men of Athens,
there is no fuch Law in being. Yet becaufe I was Treafurer of
your theatrical Funds, when I generoufly gave thofe Sums to>
the Pubhc, he therefore impudently allerts, " The Senate con-
" ferred thefe Honours upon him, while he was yet accounta-
" ble for that Employment". But I received thefe Hononrs,
not for any Employment, fubjed: to account, but for my pure
Liberality, thou Calumniator.
" But you were Surveyor of our Walls ;" yes, and even from
that Office have I merited thefe Honours, becaufe I expended
largely
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largely of my own Fortune, nor charged my Expence to the
Commonwealth. Accounts of public Money do indeed require
a fevere Infpeftion and Scrutiny; but voluntary Gifts jufHy de-
mand Gratitude and Praife. Upon thefe Motives Cteiiphon
preferred this Decree. That fuch hath ever been your Manner
of Proceeding, not only confirmed by our Laws, but by out
general Ufages, I fhall eafily demonftrate by numberlefs Exam-
ples. Firft, Nauficles, Commander of your Forces, was often
crowned for his Liberality. When Diotimus and Charidemus
gave Shields to their Soldiers, they were honoured with Crowns.
Neoptolemus, Diredor of feveral public Works, was alfo diftin-
guiflied with this Honour for his Generofity. It were indeed
deplorable that a Magiftrate, while he exercifes his Office, fhould
be forbidden to give of his Bounty to the Republic, or inftead
of receiving Thanks for that Bounty, fhould be fubjeded to
pafTmg an Account. To evince the Truth of what I afTert,
read the Decrees relating to thefe Perfons.
o
The Decree.
Demonicus was Archon, when Callias, according to tlie
Refolution of the Senate, on the twenty-fixth Day of Septem-
ber, delivered this Opinion : that it feemeth good to the Se-
nate and People to crown Nauficles, Commander of their For-
ces, becaufe when two thoufand Athenian Soldiers were in
Garrifon at Imbros, whither they had marched to fuccour
their Countrymen, eflabliilied in that Ifland ; and when Phi-
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alon, appointed to provide for their Subfiftence, was prevented
by a violent Storm from failing thither, and from paying the
Troops, he advanced their Pay out of his own Fortune, nor
ever afterwards demanded it from the Republic. Let the
Crown be proclaimed during the Feftival of Bacchus, when
the new Tragedians appear upon the Stage.
The Decree.
When the proper Magiftrates had colledled the Suffrages of
the Senate, Callias thus delivered his Opinion : Whereas Chari-
demus, Commander of our Infantry in the Expedition to Sala-
mis, and Diotimus, General of the Cavalry, did at their own
Expence furniflTi with Shields eight hundred of our Soldiery,
who had been plundered by the Enemy in the Battle at the
River Cephifllis : it therefore feemeth good to the Senate and
People to crown Charidemus and Diotimus with golden
Crowns, and that Proclamation thereof be made at the great
Feftival of Minerva, at the gymnaftic Games, at the Feftival
of Bacchus, when the new Tragedians appear ; and that the
proper Magiftrates, the prefiding Tribe, and the Directors of
the Games, take Care, that this Proclamation be duly executed.
Each of thefe Perfons, iEfchines, was indeed accountable
lor whatever Employment he held ; certainly not for the Ge-
nerofity, by which he merited thefe Honours ; neither, confe-
quently, fhould I be accountable for mine. I may with Juftice
claim the fame Privileges with others, in the fame Circumftan-
ces.
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ces. I liberally gave, and for that Liberality I am honoured ;
furely not accountable for what I have given. I have born
Employments, and for them have paffed my Accounts ; not for
,thefe Inftances of my own Generofity. ; But, in the Name of
Jupiter ! *' I have been guilty of ftrange Mifdemeanors in the
" Difcharge of thcfe Employments. " As you were prefent,
JEfchines, when I paffed my Accounts before the proper Officers,
why did you not then prefer this Indictment ? But clearly to
demonftrate, that he himfelf bears Witnefs for me, that I receive
this Honour for thofe AAions, of which I am by no means obli-
ged to render an Account, let the Secretary read Ctefiphon's
whole Decree. Becaufe, by every Article of that Decree, to
which he never made any Objection, he will appear in his
prefent Profecution an infamous Calumniator. Read.
The Decree.
Under the Archonfhip of Euthycles, on the twenty-fecond
Day of Oftober, the Oenean Tribe prefiding in the Senate,
Ctefiphon delivered this Opinion : whereas Demofthenes, when
he was appointed Surveyor of our Walls, expended and gave to
the People, out of his own private Fortune, the Sum of three
Talents ; and when he was Director of the theatrical Trcafiiry,
generoufly added an hundred Minae to the common Fund for
Sacrifices: (17) it feemeth good to the Senate and People of
Athens,
(17) Wolfius acknowledges the Diffi- mous latin Trandation. Ha donafo a
culty of this Paffage, and gives '. -. is own tutti curatori delle cofe /acre cento njine
Explanation of it, with the different per fare i facrifici. Tradidit omnium
Tranflations of it before his Time, tribuum jerariis centum minas pro fuppH-
Let us add the Italian, and an anony- cationibus peragendis.
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Atlieusj that Demofthenes iliall receive the Honour due to his
ringular Merit, and to that Affcdion, which he hath always
pieferved towards the Athenian People ; that he be crowned
with a golden Crown, and Proclamation thereof be made in the
Theatre, during theFeftival of Bacchus, when the new Trage-
dians appear, and that the Care of this Proclamation be com-
mitted to the Diredor of the Games.
These, iEfchines, are the Particulars of my Liberality ;
thefe you have not thought proper to arraign ; but the Honours,
conferred upon me by the Senate as a Reward for that Liberahty,
thefe are the Obje<5ls of your Indidment. To receive Obliga-
tions therefore you acknowledge to be within the Law ; and do
you efleem the Gratitude of repaying them, illegal ? If we
were obliged to defcribe the moft abandoned Profligate, deteft-
ed by the Gods, and verily pofTeffed with the moft malignant
Spirit of Envy, would not thefe, I here atteft thofe Gods, be
the Marks ot his Charader ?
With regard to Proclamations, I fhall pafs over a thoufand
Inftances, and without even mentioning, that I myfelf have been
often crowned in the Theatre. But in the Name of the im-
mortal Gods, canfl: thou indeed, iEfchines, be fo perverfely
abfurd ; fo flupidly fenfelefs, as not to be capable of difcern-
ing, that a Crown always conveys the fame Honour to the
Perlbn, upon whom it is conferred, wherever it be proclaimed ;
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but that the Proclamation is made in the Theatre, for the Bene-
fit and Advantage of thofe, by whom it is beftowed ? Who-
ever hears it proclaimed is animated with a more generous
Ardour for the Intercft of the Republic, and they, who beftow
the Crown, and thus gratefully repay the Services, that deferved
it, are more honoured, than the Perfon who receives it. Up-
on thefe Reafons the Commonwealth has founded the following
Law.
The Law.
The Proclamations for Crowns granted by the Boroughs of
Attica fhall be made in their own refpedive Boroughs ; but if
the People and Senate of Athens crown any of their Citizens, it
fball be permitted to proclaim them in the Theatre, during
the Feftival of Bacchus.
DosT thou hear, iEfchines, the Law itfelf exprefsly de-
claring, "if the People and Senate of Athens crown any of
" their Citizens, let them be proclaimed in the Theatre ? "!
Wherefore then, unhappy Man, doft thou utter thefe Calum-
nies? Wherefore invent thefe Falfehoods? Why doft thou not
purge away this Madnefs of thy Brain with Hellebore? Art
thou not afhamed of having urged this Profecution, not for any
Crime, committed againft the State, but to gratiiy thy own
malignant Spirit of Envy ? Doft thou not blufti for having
corrupted fome of our Laws, and quoted others partially, which
ought in Juftice to have been recited at length ; efpecially before
Judges,
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Judges, who are engaged by Oath to pronounce Sentence ac-^
cordincT to thofe Laws ? Yet after having a6ted in this Man-
ner, you enumerate the QuaHfications, that {Kould neceflarily
enter into the Charadler of a zealous and faithful Republican,
as if you were giving Diredions to a Sculptor, and had after-
wards received a Statue greatly different from the Diredions
you had given ; or as if a valuable Republican were to be de-
fcribed by your Words, not by his own Conduft, and the
Meafures he had propofed in his Miniftry. (i8) Then with
Clamour and Vociferation, as if you were ftill in the original
Cart of your Profeffion, (19) you utter a Language, without
Diftindion of fitting or unfitting, far better fuited to thee, and thy
Family, than mine. However, I conceive there is this Differ-
ence, O Men of Athens, between Invedives and a legal Profe-
cution, that Profecutions have for their Objedls fome Crimes,
for which the Laws denounce a proper Punifhment ; but In-
vedives
(18) Our Author laughs at ^fchines Part of the Sentence rendered very difFer-
for luppofmg, that a Minifter of State ently from the Senfe, in which it is under-
could be exaftly formed according to his flood by our Tranflators, and Commen-
Defcription. He makes no Allowance tators.
for the various Abilities and Virtues and (19) uu-tt^d e^ a^a'l'iyf. ^s if out
Paffions, that mufl: enter into the Com- of a Cart. The Tranflator confelFes, he
pofition ? , and form perhaps the moft has no Authority among our Commen-
complex Being of the Creation. He ex- tators for applying tbefe Words to the
pec^s it (liould be complete and fimple, particular Cart, in which Thefpis and
as it appears in his Ideas. Thushegivts his firft flrolli g Comedians exhibited
Dircdt ons to a Sculptor for a Statue, but their Plays. Yet this Application gives
will be miferably difappointed, if he a peculiar Spirit to the Pafiage, as it
imagines, he lliall fee it finiflied in every whimfically reprefents ^fchines in this
FeatLtre, Lineament, and Attitude, ac- original Theatreof his Profefllon. which
. cording to thofe DirecT:ions. Demofthenes is always extremely careful
1'he learned Reader will find the latter to remember.
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vedivcs have only thofe Expreffions of Bitternef>, which they,
who hate each other, are apt to utter in Proportion to the na-
tural Malignity of their DifpoHtions.
Yet I cannot imagine,
that our Anceftors ered;ed thefe Courts of Juftice, that you
fhould afiemblc here, and liften to thofe atrocious Calumnics>
with which we flander each other; but that we fhould legally
accufe and convidt whoever hath been guilty of any Crime
againfl: the Republic. Although ^fchines was equally con-
fcious, as I am, of this Truth, yet he hath chofen the Invec-
tives of his Cart, rather than a legal Profecution.
It were however unreafonable, that he fhould go ofF in
Triumph on this Occafion, and efcape the Vengeance he hath
provoked. I fhall therefore regularly proceed upon that Con-
fideration, when I have afked him the following Queflion.
Whether, ^Efchines, may we pronounce you my Enemy, or
that of the Republic? Mine undoubtedly. When it was
however in your Power to revenge, in regular Courfe of Law,
the Crimes I am now fuppofed to have committed, v/hy did
you totally negled: to profecute me by an Examination into my
Accounts, by an Indi6lment for the Laws I had tranfgrefled, or
by fome other judicial Proceeding ? Or when I was declared
innocent in every Inftance by the Laws themfelves ; by the
flated Days appointed for my Arraignment, and by the Judge-
ment frequently pronounced upon my Condu6l ; when i never
was convicted of any one Aiflion injurious to the Interefls of my
Vol. II. o FI h h Coun-
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Country ; when the Republic certainly gained, according to
particular Incidents and Conjundures, a greater or lefs confide-
rable Share of Glory by my Adminiflration, haft thou now de-
termined upon this Oppofition ? Be cautious however of being
found an Enemy to the People of Athens in Reality, to me in
Appearance.
Since you are now inftruded how to pronounce Sentence ac-
cording to Juftice, and the religious Obligation of your Oaths,
I hold myfelf compelled, (for fo it appears) although not natu-
rally fond of Invedives, to return fome Anfwer to his Calum-
nies, and Falfehoods ; to tell fome neceftary Truths concerning
him, and to demonftate both what he is in himfelf, and from
what Anceftry defcended, who with fuch Facility provokes,
and talks Evil of others ; who tears to Pieces fome cafual
Expreflions of mine, though he himfelf utters Things, of
which, what good Man would not be afhamed ? If JEncus,
Rhadamanthus or Minos were my Accufers, not this Word-
Catcher, this hackneyed Pettifogger, this miferable Scrivener, I
do not imagine they would have treated me with fuch injurious
Language, or with fuch Infolence, as when, like an Adlor in
a Tragedy, he cried out aloud, O Earth, and Sun, and Virtue,
with other Exclamations of the fame Kind ; and again, when he
invoked that Intelligence and Erudition, by which we diftinguifli
between Things beautiful and deformed. You yourfelves heard
him talk this extraordinary Language. What Commerce, thou Im-
purity j
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purity, haft thou, or thine, with Virtue ? What Knowledge to di-
ftinguifh between Things beautiful and deformed ? Whence could
you have acquired fuch Difcernment, whence claim the Merit
of fuch a Talent ? Canft thou prefume to talk of Erudition ?
They, who have indeed acquired a larger Portion of it, never
boaft of the Pofleffion themfelves, and blufh whenever it is
mentioned by others. But it happens to thofe, who are totally
uneducated like you, that in meer Want of common Senfe they
aflume the Appearance of it, and torture their Hearers with
the Vanity of difplaying it, but never perfuade them into an
Opinion of their Learning.
a, Although certainly not a Lofs for Matter in Abundance
concerning thee and thine, yet I am really at a Lofs where to
begin. Whether that your Father Tromes was a Slave in Fet-
ters to Elpias, the Schoolmafter, who taught Children their Al-
phabet near the Temple of Thefeus ; or that your Mother
exercifed her daily Matrimony in a Brothel near the Statue of
Calamites, the Hero, and there educated this very lovely Pic-
ture x)f a Man, this lirft-rate Adlor of third-rate Charaders?
Or that Phormio, the Galley- Trumpeter, and a Slave of Dion's,
firft raifed her from this honourable and virtuous Employment ?
But by Jupiter and all our Deities, I am apprehenfive,
while I am thus treating thy Charadler with ftrifteft Propriety,
that I fhall appear to talk a Language ill-fuited to my own
H h h 2 Manners
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Manners and Reputation. I fhall therefore avoid it hereafter,
and will here begin the Hiftory of his proper Life. He is now
Tio longer one of the Vulgar ; one of the unknown ; but emi-
nently diftinguiilied by being devoted to Defcrudion by the
general Execrations of our People. For lately ; do I fay lately ?
even Yeflerday, or the Day before, he became at once an A-
thenian, and an Orator. Then adding two Syllable* to his Fa-
ther's Name, indead of Tromes he calls him Atrometus ; and
very folemnly decorates his Mother with the Title of Glauco-
thea, whom we all remember by the Surname of Empufa, in
Honour of the various Forms (he could affume on certain Oc-
cafions, and her ready Compliances, doing or fufFering.
What other pofiible Account of fuch an extraordinary Appel-
lation ? -Yet thou, ungrateful as thou art, and malevolent in
thy Nature, though raifed from Slavery to Freedom, from Indi-
gence to Riches, by the Favour of our People, art fo far from
repaying thefe Obligations with Gratitude, that thou haft fold
thyfelf to their Enemies, and employed all the Powers of thy
Adminiftration to their Deftrudion.
'Whatever appears in his Orations, by which his Intentions
with regard to the Republic can poillbly admit of a Difpute,
I fhall pafs over unnoticed ; but whatever he hath been openly
convidled of ading in Favour of our Enemies, I fliall defire you
To recolledl:. Who does not remember the disfranchifed Anti-
phon ? He had promifed Philip to fet Fire to your Arfenals,
and
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and came hither fecretly for that Purpofe. When I had feized
him, harking in the Pyr^um, and dragged him before an Af-
fembly of the People, this Traitor, by loud and repeated Cla -
mours, *' that I had outraged the Liberty of the Conftitution i
" infulted an unhappy Citizen in his Misfortunes, and unwar-
*' rantably broke into his Houfe," prevailed to have the Cri-
minal difmiffed ; and unlefs the Areopagus, perceiving the Vil-
lainy of the Affair, and fenfible of your Imprudence at fo cri-
tical a Conjundture, had ordered flri<fl Search to be made
after that execrable Incendiary ; unlefs they had arrefted, and
brought him before you again, he had been violently wrefted
out of the Hands of Juftice, and efcaped with Impunity under
the Protedlion of this pompous Declaimer. On the contrary,
you put him to the Torture, and then fent him to his Execu-
tion, as you ought in Juftice to have treated his Advocate. But
when with the fame Imprudence, which had often produced
moft unhappy Confequences to the Public, you appointed JEC-
chines your Deputy to the Congrefs of the States at Delos, the
Areopagus, who were perfectly well informed of every Circum-
ftance of his Condud; with regard to Antiphon, and to whom
you had given the fole Cognizance, and abfolute Determination
of the Affair, inftantly turned him, like a Traitor, out of his
Employment, and nominated Hyperides your Deputy. Such
was the Decifion of the Senate, and executed with all the re-
ligious Ceremonies of approaching the Altar in giving their Suf-
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fratres, when not one Suftiage was give>> to this unhallowed
Villain. Jn Atteftation of thefe Fadls call me the Witnefies.
The Witnesses.
The following Perfons, Callias, Zeno, Cleon, and Demoni-
cus, bear this Teftimony to Demofthenes ; that when the Peo-
ple had ele6led ^Efchines their Deputy to fupport the facred
Rights of the Temple at Delos, in the general Aflembly of the
Amphi6lyons, we being met in Council adjudged Hyperides
to be much more worthy to plead the Caufe of the Republic,
and Hyperides was accordingly eleded.
As ^^fchines therefore was appointed to this Office; as the
Senate excluded him, and preferred another, it then openly
declared him a Traitor, and an Enemy to his Country. You
have here one gallant Inftance of his Politics, and which cer-
tainly bears a near Refemblance, does it not ? to thofe Crimes,
whereof I am accufed. I fhall now defire you to recolledt an-
other. When Philip fent Python hither, and with him the Am-
balTadors of all his Confederates, with an Intention of expofing
the Republic to univerfal Shame, and proving, that fhe had
violated the Laws of Nations, I yielded not to that infolent O-
rator, nor gave Way to the impetuous Torrent of his Declama-
tion. I rofe, and replied ; nor did I, like a Traitor, give up
the Juftice of your Caufe, but fo manifeftly convidled Philip
of Perfidy and Injuftice, that even his own Confederates arofe
and acknowledged the Charge. Yet ^Efchines was an Advocate
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for Python : not only was a Witnefs, but even a falfe and per-
jured Witnefs. Nor were even thefe Treafons fufficient. He
was foon afterwards found in TJirafo's Houfe in fecret Confer-
ence with Anaxinus, the Spy of Philip. But undoubtedly,
whoever fecretly confers and holds Correfpondence with an E-
miflary of our Enemies, is himfelf in the very Nature of Things,
a Spy, and an Enemy to his Country. In Proof of thefe Af-
fertions, let the Witncfles be called.
The Witnesses.
CaLlidemus, Hyperides, and Nicomachus, having been
duly fworn before the Generals, deliver this Teftimony in Fa-
vour of Demofthenes : That they faw iEfchines entering by
Night into the Houfe of Thrafo, and their holding fecret Con-
ference with Anaxinus, who was generally reputed the Spy of
Philip. This Teftimony is dated the third of July, under the
Archonfliip of Nicias.
A thoufand other Proofs of his Villainy I pafs over unmen-
tioned, for in general fuch was his Condu6l. Befides, I could
now give you many other ftill more flagrant Inftances of his
having, through that whole Period, like a Slave maintained the
Interefts of your Enemies, and purfued me with perpetual Vex-
ations. But Fa<? ls of this Kind make not any juft ImprefTion
upon your Memories, nor excite that Indigpation they defervc.
You have indulged (by unhappy Cuftom) an unbounded Licence
to every Declaimer, who thinks proper, to fupplant and ca-
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lumniatc the Citizen, who propofcs to you the moft falutary
Coiinfcls, and thus exchange the real Advantages of the Com-
monwealth for the trivial Plcafure and Gratification of liftening
to Calumnies and Inveftives. From thence, it becomes more
eafy, and far lefs dangerous for them, who are fervilely devoted
to your Enemies, to receive the Reward of their Perfidy, than
for a faithful Citizen, and zealous of your Welfare, to accept
of an Lmployment in your Adminiftration.
Before the War was openly proclaimed it was impious, O
Earth and Heaven ! to have affifted PhiHp. Can the Charge
of Impiety be denied in an Ad: of Treafon againft our Country ?
Pardon him however, if fuch be your good Pleafure ; pardon this
Impiety. But when our Ships were openly plundered, Cherib-
nefus laid Vv^afte, and Philip had invaded even the Territories
of Athens ; when the Affair was no longer Matter of Doubt,
but Hoftilities were a6lually commenced, yet this Sychophant,
who mouths his Iambics fo tragically, hath not one Decree,
whether of greater or lefs Importance, to produce for the Ad-
vantage of the Republic. If he dares affert the contrary, let
him produce it in thefe Hours allotted for my Defence. But
there is not any fuch Decree. From whence, one of thefe two
Confcquences mufl: neceffarily follow, either that he was inca-
pable of finding Fault with my Condud, and therefore did not
offer any other Decrees ; or being folicitous to promote theln-
tercfts of our Enemies, was determined not to propofe any
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better Meafures. But when he found a PoffibiHty of working
any execrable Mifchief, did he ftill refufe to prefer any Decree ?
Was he flill obflinatcly filent ? No. He would not then
fufFer any one elfe even to fpeak.
His other, fecret Pradices, the Commonwealth might per-
haps have endured ; but one daring A61 of Villainy hath crown-
ed and compleated all the former. That A 61, upon which he
confumed fo confiderabie a Part of his Harangue, when he
feemed determined utterly to pervert the very Nature of Truth
by a perplexed and tedious Enumeration of Locrian Decrees
and Refolutions. But impoffible. How can Truth be per-
verted by Falfehood ? It is not, ^fchines, in the Multitude
of Words to wafli away the Guiit of this Tranfadion. But I
here invoke, O Men of Athens, in your Prefence, all our Gods
and Goddeffes, who graciou fiy prefide over thefe Territories,
efpecially the Pythian Apollo, the God of our A. nc? ftors, and
implore them all to grant me Happinefs and Health, as I now
fpeak truly, or as I truly fpoke in your Affembly, when I
firft perceived (for I perceived, and inftantly perceived) this un-
hallowed Wretch engaging in thefe execrable Designs. IBut if
in perfonal Enmity to him, or Love of Oppofition, I now ac-
cufe him falfely, may thofe Gods render me for ever incapable
of enjoying the Bleflings I pollefs. But wherefore this earneft
Invocation, or why thefe vehement Exclamations ? Becaufe,
although I can indifputably prove the Fadls, whereof I (hall
nccufe him, by our public Records ; although I am perfuaded.
Vol. II. I i i that
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that you yourfelvcs perfedly remember the whole Tranfadion^
yet I am apprehenfive he may be deemed too incon{iderable ta
be capable of working fuch enormous Mifchiefs. Thus it hap-
pened before, when he brought hither his Falichoods from
Macedonia, and utterly wrought the Deftrudion of the mifera-r
ble Phoc^eans. For iEfchines was the fole Contriver of the Am-
phiflaean War ; that War, by which Philip got Poficflion of
Elatsa ; by which he was elected Commander in Chief of the
Amphidlyons, and overturned th& whole imperial Conftitution
of Greece : j^fchines alone was the Caufe of all our fevereft
Misfortunes. When, at the Moment, I entered my Proteft
againft him, and cried aloud in the Affembly, " You bring a
*' War, i^lfchines, into Attica J the Amphidyonic War," fome
of his Party, convened by him for that Purpofe, would not
fuffer me to proceed ; while others were aftonifhed, and even
fufpeded, that in perfonal Hatred I had charged him with an
imaginary Crime. Now hear, O Men of Athens, Unce you
were not then permitted to hear, the Nature and Circumftances
of this Affair ; with what View the Projedl was contrived,
and how it was carried into Execution. You will behold a
Scheme admirably well concerted ; you will receive no incon-
fiderable Lights with regard to this Period of your Hiftory, and
obferve how great was Philip's Dexterity, and Addrefs.
It was impofTible for him to exped a happy Iffue of the
War, or to be relieved from its Diftrefles, except he could en-
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gage the Thebans and Theflalians in a Quarrel with this Repub-
lic. For although your Generals conducted the War againfl
him unfortunately, and with very unequal Abilities, yet the
War itfelf, and our Privateers wrougrht him a thoufand Mif-
chiefs. He could neither export the Produce of his own King-
dom, or import whatever NecefTaries he wanted from other
Countries. He was neither, at that Time, fuperior to us by
Sea, nor powerful enough by Land to have invaded Attica, if
the Theffalians had not followed his Standards, or the The-
bans opened him a Paffage through their Dominions. What-
ever Superiority he gained over the Generals, fuch as they
were (for their Charaders are not at prelent under our Confl-
derationj whom you employed againft him, yet by the Nature
and Situation of the Country, where the War was carried on,
and by fome Advantages we mutually enjoyed, he was infi-
nitely diftrelTed. If he fliould attempt, upon Motives of his own
perfonal Enmity alone, to induce the Theffalians and Thebans
to invade us, he was convinced, they would pay him very little
Attention ; but if, by affuming the fpecious Appearance of a
common Caufe, he could be chofen General of the Amphicly-
ons, he then hoped to fucceed more eafily, either by Artifice
or Perfuafion. What therefore was the Plan he propofed ?
Behold how admirably concerted. To kindle a War againfl:
the Amphidyons, and to raife Diffentions in their Counfels at
Thermopylte, from whence he prefumed, they would immedi-
ately apply to him for Affiftance. If however he fliould em-
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ploy either his awn Deputies, or thofe of his Confederates in
the Scheme, he was juftly apprehcnfive, that the Thebans and
ThefTahans would fufpedl; him, and the Grecians in general be
more upon their Guard. But if an Athenian j a Deputy, ap-
pointed by a People, who had declared themfelves his Enemies,
would negotiate the Affair, he doubted not, as in Fad it
happened, that he fhould conceal his Defign. But how did he
execute his Projeft? He bribed this Traitor. Then, while
we were in general, I believe, unapprehenfive of their Inten-
tions, or (as it ufually happens in your Affairs) not fufEciently
careful to prevent their taking Effed, it was propofed to fend
^fchines Ambaffador to the Congrefs at Thermopylas, and
when three or four of his own Fadion had given him their Suf-
frages, he was declared duly eledled>> Being thus inverted with
the Authority of the Republic, he entered into the Council of
the Amphidlyons, and there, negledling and treating every other
Confideration with Contempt, he fludioufly applied himfelf to*
perfe6t the great Work of his Corruption. Having compofed a.
very fpecious Harangue, and difplayed his Invention in a fabu-
lous Story of the Confecration of the Cirrhtean Lands, he fo far
impofed upon the Deputies, Men unexperienced in the Subtleties
of Eloquence, and little fagacious to- forefee the Confequences
of their Compliance, as to perfuade them to decree, that a
Survey fhould be taken of the Territories, which the Am-
phiffasans afferted to be their Property, and had therefore cul-
tivated, but which iEfchines with loud Accufations of Sacrilege
affirmed
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Fellow-Citizens. Now read the Decree, for which I was in-
didled. Then read the Schedule of Taxes appointed by our
former Laws, and afterwards by mine.
The Decree.
Under the Archonfhip of Polycles, on the fixteenth of Sep-
tember, Demofthenes propofed a Law to the Board of Admiral-
ty, repealing all former Laws, by which the Contributions of
the Trierarchs were regulated. It was confirmed by the Senate
and People. Patrocles preferred an Indictment againft De-
mofthenes for this Violation of our Laws, and not gaining a
fifth Part of the Suffrages, was fined five hundred Drachmas.
Now produce the very honeft Taxes of our former Laws.
The Taxes.
Let fixteen Trierarchs, from twenty five Years of Age to for-
ty, be appointed for building one Galley, and let them equally
contribute to the Expence.
Now read the Taxes propofed by my Law,
The Taxes.
tET the Trierarchs be chofen, according to the Valuation of
their Eftates. If it amount to ten Talents, kt them build one
Galley ; if to more than ten Talents, let them be taxed in pro-
portion as far as building three Gallies and a Frigate ; if to lefs,
then let a Number be joined together, whofe Eftates amount
to that Sum. i
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Do I then appear to have inconfiderably relieved the Poor
from their Oppreflions, or would not the Rich have purchafed at
any Price a Power of continuing their Injuftice ? I do not
therefore only triumph in my not having yielded to their Soli-
talions, or in having been honourably acquitted when I was
indidled, but in having eftablifhed this falutary Law, and pro-
dudlive of fuch happy EfFe6ts. For during the whole Courfe
of the War, while your Expeditions were conduced according
to this new Regulation, no Trierarch ever complained of In-
juftice, or applied to you for Redrefs ; none ever" fled for Re-
fuge to the Afylum of Diana's Temple at Munychia ; none were
ever thrown into Prifon by the Comptrollers of the Navy ;
your Galleys were never taken by the Enemy, or detained in
Harbour, unable to put to Sea by not being properly equipped.
Yet all thefe Accidents often happened by your former Laws,
becaufe the Poor were incapable of paying their Taxes, i From
hence many infuperable Difficulties arofe. But I removed the
Expence of thefe Armaments from the Poor to the Rich, and
then every thing was regularly conduced. I therefore imagine,
that I am not unworthy of Pralfe, for having through my
whole Courfe of Miniftry conftantly preferred fuch Meafures,
as at once added Reputation, Honour, Strength to the Republic,
and that nothing envious, malignant, ill-natured ; nothing
abjedl, or unworthy of the Commonwealth ever appeared in
my Adminiftration. Upon thefe Principles I (hall appear to
have a(5ted, not only with Regard to your Affairs, but to the
general
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general Interefts of Greece. In Athens I preferred not the Fa-
vour of the Rich to the Jufticc due to the Poor j nor in Greece
preferred the Prefents and Amity of PhiHp to the common
Welfare of her States.
I THEREFORE imagine it only remains to fpeak. to the Procla-
mation, and the Obligation of paffmg my Accounts before I
am crowned ; becaufe I prefume I have fufficiently proved,
that I have ever aded for the Utility of the Republic ; that I
have always been zealous and ardent for its Welfare. I fhall
therefore pafs over the principal and more important Meaiures
I recommended, and carried into Execution during my Miniftry,
as I am convinced, that loughtfirft to juftify myfelf againfl: the
Charge of having violated our Laws ; and if I am filent after-
wards with regard to the refl of my Adminiftration, I believe
your Confcioufnefs will give fufficient Teftimony in my Favour.
I cannot, by the Gods, imagine, you were much informed by
the confufed and perplexed Harangue, that iEfchines made con-
cerning the Laws, he had tranfcribed, (i6) and many Farts
of it I myfelf was utterly unable to conceive. However, I Hiall
in perfect Simplicity follow the dirc6l Path in conhdering the
Juflice and LegaHty of this Decree. For fo far from aiTerting,
that I am not obliged to render an Account of my Miniflr)',
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(16) iEfichines had tranfcribed die was to be crowned. This was the Rule
Laws, that he aiTerted Ctefiphon had cfjuftice, mentioned in Page 330, by
violated, upon a Tablet, cravlhov, which which the People might difcern the Dif-
he placed in public View in Oppofition agreement between the Decree, and the
to the Decree, by which Demofthenes Laws it contradided. Tayior.
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as he hath falfely and repeatedly affirmed, that I confefs ray-
felf through my \^'hole Life accountable for whatever Employ-
ments I have held, or whatever Meafures I have recommended ;
but for what I have voluntarily given out of my own private
Fortune to the Public, I do maintain, I am at no Time liable
to account. Doft thou hear, iEfchines ? Neither I, nor any
other Citizen, although he had actually poffefled the Dignity
of one of our nine Archons. For where is the Law, fo full of
Injuftice and Inhumanity, as to deprive that Man of the grateful
Acknowledgements due to his Merit, who hath given any Part
of his Fortune to his Country; or hath performed any humane
and generous Adion ? Where is the Law, that delivers him
up to the Mercy of Calumniators, and makes them Judges of
his Liberality ? There never was fuch an inhuman Law. If
iEfchines affirms the contrary, let him produce it. I fhall
acquiefce and be filent. But in Truth, O Men of Athens,
there is no fuch Law in being. Yet becaufe I was Treafurer of
your theatrical Funds, when I generoufly gave thofe Sums to>
the Pubhc, he therefore impudently allerts, " The Senate con-
" ferred thefe Honours upon him, while he was yet accounta-
" ble for that Employment". But I received thefe Hononrs,
not for any Employment, fubjed: to account, but for my pure
Liberality, thou Calumniator.
" But you were Surveyor of our Walls ;" yes, and even from
that Office have I merited thefe Honours, becaufe I expended
largely
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largely of my own Fortune, nor charged my Expence to the
Commonwealth. Accounts of public Money do indeed require
a fevere Infpeftion and Scrutiny; but voluntary Gifts jufHy de-
mand Gratitude and Praife. Upon thefe Motives Cteiiphon
preferred this Decree. That fuch hath ever been your Manner
of Proceeding, not only confirmed by our Laws, but by out
general Ufages, I fhall eafily demonftrate by numberlefs Exam-
ples. Firft, Nauficles, Commander of your Forces, was often
crowned for his Liberality. When Diotimus and Charidemus
gave Shields to their Soldiers, they were honoured with Crowns.
Neoptolemus, Diredor of feveral public Works, was alfo diftin-
guiflied with this Honour for his Generofity. It were indeed
deplorable that a Magiftrate, while he exercifes his Office, fhould
be forbidden to give of his Bounty to the Republic, or inftead
of receiving Thanks for that Bounty, fhould be fubjeded to
pafTmg an Account. To evince the Truth of what I afTert,
read the Decrees relating to thefe Perfons.
o
The Decree.
Demonicus was Archon, when Callias, according to tlie
Refolution of the Senate, on the twenty-fixth Day of Septem-
ber, delivered this Opinion : that it feemeth good to the Se-
nate and People to crown Nauficles, Commander of their For-
ces, becaufe when two thoufand Athenian Soldiers were in
Garrifon at Imbros, whither they had marched to fuccour
their Countrymen, eflabliilied in that Ifland ; and when Phi-
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alon, appointed to provide for their Subfiftence, was prevented
by a violent Storm from failing thither, and from paying the
Troops, he advanced their Pay out of his own Fortune, nor
ever afterwards demanded it from the Republic. Let the
Crown be proclaimed during the Feftival of Bacchus, when
the new Tragedians appear upon the Stage.
The Decree.
When the proper Magiftrates had colledled the Suffrages of
the Senate, Callias thus delivered his Opinion : Whereas Chari-
demus, Commander of our Infantry in the Expedition to Sala-
mis, and Diotimus, General of the Cavalry, did at their own
Expence furniflTi with Shields eight hundred of our Soldiery,
who had been plundered by the Enemy in the Battle at the
River Cephifllis : it therefore feemeth good to the Senate and
People to crown Charidemus and Diotimus with golden
Crowns, and that Proclamation thereof be made at the great
Feftival of Minerva, at the gymnaftic Games, at the Feftival
of Bacchus, when the new Tragedians appear ; and that the
proper Magiftrates, the prefiding Tribe, and the Directors of
the Games, take Care, that this Proclamation be duly executed.
Each of thefe Perfons, iEfchines, was indeed accountable
lor whatever Employment he held ; certainly not for the Ge-
nerofity, by which he merited thefe Honours ; neither, confe-
quently, fhould I be accountable for mine. I may with Juftice
claim the fame Privileges with others, in the fame Circumftan-
ces.
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ces. I liberally gave, and for that Liberality I am honoured ;
furely not accountable for what I have given. I have born
Employments, and for them have paffed my Accounts ; not for
,thefe Inftances of my own Generofity. ; But, in the Name of
Jupiter ! *' I have been guilty of ftrange Mifdemeanors in the
" Difcharge of thcfe Employments. " As you were prefent,
JEfchines, when I paffed my Accounts before the proper Officers,
why did you not then prefer this Indictment ? But clearly to
demonftrate, that he himfelf bears Witnefs for me, that I receive
this Honour for thofe AAions, of which I am by no means obli-
ged to render an Account, let the Secretary read Ctefiphon's
whole Decree. Becaufe, by every Article of that Decree, to
which he never made any Objection, he will appear in his
prefent Profecution an infamous Calumniator. Read.
The Decree.
Under the Archonfhip of Euthycles, on the twenty-fecond
Day of Oftober, the Oenean Tribe prefiding in the Senate,
Ctefiphon delivered this Opinion : whereas Demofthenes, when
he was appointed Surveyor of our Walls, expended and gave to
the People, out of his own private Fortune, the Sum of three
Talents ; and when he was Director of the theatrical Trcafiiry,
generoufly added an hundred Minae to the common Fund for
Sacrifices: (17) it feemeth good to the Senate and People of
Athens,
(17) Wolfius acknowledges the Diffi- mous latin Trandation. Ha donafo a
culty of this Paffage, and gives '. -. is own tutti curatori delle cofe /acre cento njine
Explanation of it, with the different per fare i facrifici. Tradidit omnium
Tranflations of it before his Time, tribuum jerariis centum minas pro fuppH-
Let us add the Italian, and an anony- cationibus peragendis.
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Atlieusj that Demofthenes iliall receive the Honour due to his
ringular Merit, and to that Affcdion, which he hath always
pieferved towards the Athenian People ; that he be crowned
with a golden Crown, and Proclamation thereof be made in the
Theatre, during theFeftival of Bacchus, when the new Trage-
dians appear, and that the Care of this Proclamation be com-
mitted to the Diredor of the Games.
These, iEfchines, are the Particulars of my Liberality ;
thefe you have not thought proper to arraign ; but the Honours,
conferred upon me by the Senate as a Reward for that Liberahty,
thefe are the Obje<5ls of your Indidment. To receive Obliga-
tions therefore you acknowledge to be within the Law ; and do
you efleem the Gratitude of repaying them, illegal ? If we
were obliged to defcribe the moft abandoned Profligate, deteft-
ed by the Gods, and verily pofTeffed with the moft malignant
Spirit of Envy, would not thefe, I here atteft thofe Gods, be
the Marks ot his Charader ?
With regard to Proclamations, I fhall pafs over a thoufand
Inftances, and without even mentioning, that I myfelf have been
often crowned in the Theatre. But in the Name of the im-
mortal Gods, canfl: thou indeed, iEfchines, be fo perverfely
abfurd ; fo flupidly fenfelefs, as not to be capable of difcern-
ing, that a Crown always conveys the fame Honour to the
Perlbn, upon whom it is conferred, wherever it be proclaimed ;
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but that the Proclamation is made in the Theatre, for the Bene-
fit and Advantage of thofe, by whom it is beftowed ? Who-
ever hears it proclaimed is animated with a more generous
Ardour for the Intercft of the Republic, and they, who beftow
the Crown, and thus gratefully repay the Services, that deferved
it, are more honoured, than the Perfon who receives it. Up-
on thefe Reafons the Commonwealth has founded the following
Law.
The Law.
The Proclamations for Crowns granted by the Boroughs of
Attica fhall be made in their own refpedive Boroughs ; but if
the People and Senate of Athens crown any of their Citizens, it
fball be permitted to proclaim them in the Theatre, during
the Feftival of Bacchus.
DosT thou hear, iEfchines, the Law itfelf exprefsly de-
claring, "if the People and Senate of Athens crown any of
" their Citizens, let them be proclaimed in the Theatre ? "!
Wherefore then, unhappy Man, doft thou utter thefe Calum-
nies? Wherefore invent thefe Falfehoods? Why doft thou not
purge away this Madnefs of thy Brain with Hellebore? Art
thou not afhamed of having urged this Profecution, not for any
Crime, committed againft the State, but to gratiiy thy own
malignant Spirit of Envy ? Doft thou not blufti for having
corrupted fome of our Laws, and quoted others partially, which
ought in Juftice to have been recited at length ; efpecially before
Judges,
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Judges, who are engaged by Oath to pronounce Sentence ac-^
cordincT to thofe Laws ? Yet after having a6ted in this Man-
ner, you enumerate the QuaHfications, that {Kould neceflarily
enter into the Charadler of a zealous and faithful Republican,
as if you were giving Diredions to a Sculptor, and had after-
wards received a Statue greatly different from the Diredions
you had given ; or as if a valuable Republican were to be de-
fcribed by your Words, not by his own Conduft, and the
Meafures he had propofed in his Miniftry. (i8) Then with
Clamour and Vociferation, as if you were ftill in the original
Cart of your Profeffion, (19) you utter a Language, without
Diftindion of fitting or unfitting, far better fuited to thee, and thy
Family, than mine. However, I conceive there is this Differ-
ence, O Men of Athens, between Invedives and a legal Profe-
cution, that Profecutions have for their Objedls fome Crimes,
for which the Laws denounce a proper Punifhment ; but In-
vedives
(18) Our Author laughs at ^fchines Part of the Sentence rendered very difFer-
for luppofmg, that a Minifter of State ently from the Senfe, in which it is under-
could be exaftly formed according to his flood by our Tranflators, and Commen-
Defcription. He makes no Allowance tators.
for the various Abilities and Virtues and (19) uu-tt^d e^ a^a'l'iyf. ^s if out
Paffions, that mufl: enter into the Com- of a Cart. The Tranflator confelFes, he
pofition ? , and form perhaps the moft has no Authority among our Commen-
complex Being of the Creation. He ex- tators for applying tbefe Words to the
pec^s it (liould be complete and fimple, particular Cart, in which Thefpis and
as it appears in his Ideas. Thushegivts his firft flrolli g Comedians exhibited
Dircdt ons to a Sculptor for a Statue, but their Plays. Yet this Application gives
will be miferably difappointed, if he a peculiar Spirit to the Pafiage, as it
imagines, he lliall fee it finiflied in every whimfically reprefents ^fchines in this
FeatLtre, Lineament, and Attitude, ac- original Theatreof his Profefllon. which
. cording to thofe DirecT:ions. Demofthenes is always extremely careful
1'he learned Reader will find the latter to remember.
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vedivcs have only thofe Expreffions of Bitternef>, which they,
who hate each other, are apt to utter in Proportion to the na-
tural Malignity of their DifpoHtions.
Yet I cannot imagine,
that our Anceftors ered;ed thefe Courts of Juftice, that you
fhould afiemblc here, and liften to thofe atrocious Calumnics>
with which we flander each other; but that we fhould legally
accufe and convidt whoever hath been guilty of any Crime
againfl: the Republic. Although ^fchines was equally con-
fcious, as I am, of this Truth, yet he hath chofen the Invec-
tives of his Cart, rather than a legal Profecution.
It were however unreafonable, that he fhould go ofF in
Triumph on this Occafion, and efcape the Vengeance he hath
provoked. I fhall therefore regularly proceed upon that Con-
fideration, when I have afked him the following Queflion.
Whether, ^Efchines, may we pronounce you my Enemy, or
that of the Republic? Mine undoubtedly. When it was
however in your Power to revenge, in regular Courfe of Law,
the Crimes I am now fuppofed to have committed, v/hy did
you totally negled: to profecute me by an Examination into my
Accounts, by an Indi6lment for the Laws I had tranfgrefled, or
by fome other judicial Proceeding ? Or when I was declared
innocent in every Inftance by the Laws themfelves ; by the
flated Days appointed for my Arraignment, and by the Judge-
ment frequently pronounced upon my Condu6l ; when i never
was convicted of any one Aiflion injurious to the Interefls of my
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Country ; when the Republic certainly gained, according to
particular Incidents and Conjundures, a greater or lefs confide-
rable Share of Glory by my Adminiflration, haft thou now de-
termined upon this Oppofition ? Be cautious however of being
found an Enemy to the People of Athens in Reality, to me in
Appearance.
Since you are now inftruded how to pronounce Sentence ac-
cording to Juftice, and the religious Obligation of your Oaths,
I hold myfelf compelled, (for fo it appears) although not natu-
rally fond of Invedives, to return fome Anfwer to his Calum-
nies, and Falfehoods ; to tell fome neceftary Truths concerning
him, and to demonftate both what he is in himfelf, and from
what Anceftry defcended, who with fuch Facility provokes,
and talks Evil of others ; who tears to Pieces fome cafual
Expreflions of mine, though he himfelf utters Things, of
which, what good Man would not be afhamed ? If JEncus,
Rhadamanthus or Minos were my Accufers, not this Word-
Catcher, this hackneyed Pettifogger, this miferable Scrivener, I
do not imagine they would have treated me with fuch injurious
Language, or with fuch Infolence, as when, like an Adlor in
a Tragedy, he cried out aloud, O Earth, and Sun, and Virtue,
with other Exclamations of the fame Kind ; and again, when he
invoked that Intelligence and Erudition, by which we diftinguifli
between Things beautiful and deformed. You yourfelves heard
him talk this extraordinary Language. What Commerce, thou Im-
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purity, haft thou, or thine, with Virtue ? What Knowledge to di-
ftinguifh between Things beautiful and deformed ? Whence could
you have acquired fuch Difcernment, whence claim the Merit
of fuch a Talent ? Canft thou prefume to talk of Erudition ?
They, who have indeed acquired a larger Portion of it, never
boaft of the Pofleffion themfelves, and blufh whenever it is
mentioned by others. But it happens to thofe, who are totally
uneducated like you, that in meer Want of common Senfe they
aflume the Appearance of it, and torture their Hearers with
the Vanity of difplaying it, but never perfuade them into an
Opinion of their Learning.
a, Although certainly not a Lofs for Matter in Abundance
concerning thee and thine, yet I am really at a Lofs where to
begin. Whether that your Father Tromes was a Slave in Fet-
ters to Elpias, the Schoolmafter, who taught Children their Al-
phabet near the Temple of Thefeus ; or that your Mother
exercifed her daily Matrimony in a Brothel near the Statue of
Calamites, the Hero, and there educated this very lovely Pic-
ture x)f a Man, this lirft-rate Adlor of third-rate Charaders?
Or that Phormio, the Galley- Trumpeter, and a Slave of Dion's,
firft raifed her from this honourable and virtuous Employment ?
But by Jupiter and all our Deities, I am apprehenfive,
while I am thus treating thy Charadler with ftrifteft Propriety,
that I fhall appear to talk a Language ill-fuited to my own
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Manners and Reputation. I fhall therefore avoid it hereafter,
and will here begin the Hiftory of his proper Life. He is now
Tio longer one of the Vulgar ; one of the unknown ; but emi-
nently diftinguiilied by being devoted to Defcrudion by the
general Execrations of our People. For lately ; do I fay lately ?
even Yeflerday, or the Day before, he became at once an A-
thenian, and an Orator. Then adding two Syllable* to his Fa-
ther's Name, indead of Tromes he calls him Atrometus ; and
very folemnly decorates his Mother with the Title of Glauco-
thea, whom we all remember by the Surname of Empufa, in
Honour of the various Forms (he could affume on certain Oc-
cafions, and her ready Compliances, doing or fufFering.
What other pofiible Account of fuch an extraordinary Appel-
lation ? -Yet thou, ungrateful as thou art, and malevolent in
thy Nature, though raifed from Slavery to Freedom, from Indi-
gence to Riches, by the Favour of our People, art fo far from
repaying thefe Obligations with Gratitude, that thou haft fold
thyfelf to their Enemies, and employed all the Powers of thy
Adminiftration to their Deftrudion.
'Whatever appears in his Orations, by which his Intentions
with regard to the Republic can poillbly admit of a Difpute,
I fhall pafs over unnoticed ; but whatever he hath been openly
convidled of ading in Favour of our Enemies, I fliall defire you
To recolledl:. Who does not remember the disfranchifed Anti-
phon ? He had promifed Philip to fet Fire to your Arfenals,
and
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and came hither fecretly for that Purpofe. When I had feized
him, harking in the Pyr^um, and dragged him before an Af-
fembly of the People, this Traitor, by loud and repeated Cla -
mours, *' that I had outraged the Liberty of the Conftitution i
" infulted an unhappy Citizen in his Misfortunes, and unwar-
*' rantably broke into his Houfe," prevailed to have the Cri-
minal difmiffed ; and unlefs the Areopagus, perceiving the Vil-
lainy of the Affair, and fenfible of your Imprudence at fo cri-
tical a Conjundture, had ordered flri<fl Search to be made
after that execrable Incendiary ; unlefs they had arrefted, and
brought him before you again, he had been violently wrefted
out of the Hands of Juftice, and efcaped with Impunity under
the Protedlion of this pompous Declaimer. On the contrary,
you put him to the Torture, and then fent him to his Execu-
tion, as you ought in Juftice to have treated his Advocate. But
when with the fame Imprudence, which had often produced
moft unhappy Confequences to the Public, you appointed JEC-
chines your Deputy to the Congrefs of the States at Delos, the
Areopagus, who were perfectly well informed of every Circum-
ftance of his Condud; with regard to Antiphon, and to whom
you had given the fole Cognizance, and abfolute Determination
of the Affair, inftantly turned him, like a Traitor, out of his
Employment, and nominated Hyperides your Deputy. Such
was the Decifion of the Senate, and executed with all the re-
ligious Ceremonies of approaching the Altar in giving their Suf-
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fratres, when not one Suftiage was give>> to this unhallowed
Villain. Jn Atteftation of thefe Fadls call me the Witnefies.
The Witnesses.
The following Perfons, Callias, Zeno, Cleon, and Demoni-
cus, bear this Teftimony to Demofthenes ; that when the Peo-
ple had ele6led ^Efchines their Deputy to fupport the facred
Rights of the Temple at Delos, in the general Aflembly of the
Amphi6lyons, we being met in Council adjudged Hyperides
to be much more worthy to plead the Caufe of the Republic,
and Hyperides was accordingly eleded.
As ^^fchines therefore was appointed to this Office; as the
Senate excluded him, and preferred another, it then openly
declared him a Traitor, and an Enemy to his Country. You
have here one gallant Inftance of his Politics, and which cer-
tainly bears a near Refemblance, does it not ? to thofe Crimes,
whereof I am accufed. I fhall now defire you to recolledt an-
other. When Philip fent Python hither, and with him the Am-
balTadors of all his Confederates, with an Intention of expofing
the Republic to univerfal Shame, and proving, that fhe had
violated the Laws of Nations, I yielded not to that infolent O-
rator, nor gave Way to the impetuous Torrent of his Declama-
tion. I rofe, and replied ; nor did I, like a Traitor, give up
the Juftice of your Caufe, but fo manifeftly convidled Philip
of Perfidy and Injuftice, that even his own Confederates arofe
and acknowledged the Charge. Yet ^Efchines was an Advocate
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for Python : not only was a Witnefs, but even a falfe and per-
jured Witnefs. Nor were even thefe Treafons fufficient. He
was foon afterwards found in TJirafo's Houfe in fecret Confer-
ence with Anaxinus, the Spy of Philip. But undoubtedly,
whoever fecretly confers and holds Correfpondence with an E-
miflary of our Enemies, is himfelf in the very Nature of Things,
a Spy, and an Enemy to his Country. In Proof of thefe Af-
fertions, let the Witncfles be called.
The Witnesses.
CaLlidemus, Hyperides, and Nicomachus, having been
duly fworn before the Generals, deliver this Teftimony in Fa-
vour of Demofthenes : That they faw iEfchines entering by
Night into the Houfe of Thrafo, and their holding fecret Con-
ference with Anaxinus, who was generally reputed the Spy of
Philip. This Teftimony is dated the third of July, under the
Archonfliip of Nicias.
A thoufand other Proofs of his Villainy I pafs over unmen-
tioned, for in general fuch was his Condu6l. Befides, I could
now give you many other ftill more flagrant Inftances of his
having, through that whole Period, like a Slave maintained the
Interefts of your Enemies, and purfued me with perpetual Vex-
ations. But Fa<? ls of this Kind make not any juft ImprefTion
upon your Memories, nor excite that Indigpation they defervc.
You have indulged (by unhappy Cuftom) an unbounded Licence
to every Declaimer, who thinks proper, to fupplant and ca-
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lumniatc the Citizen, who propofcs to you the moft falutary
Coiinfcls, and thus exchange the real Advantages of the Com-
monwealth for the trivial Plcafure and Gratification of liftening
to Calumnies and Inveftives. From thence, it becomes more
eafy, and far lefs dangerous for them, who are fervilely devoted
to your Enemies, to receive the Reward of their Perfidy, than
for a faithful Citizen, and zealous of your Welfare, to accept
of an Lmployment in your Adminiftration.
Before the War was openly proclaimed it was impious, O
Earth and Heaven ! to have affifted PhiHp. Can the Charge
of Impiety be denied in an Ad: of Treafon againft our Country ?
Pardon him however, if fuch be your good Pleafure ; pardon this
Impiety. But when our Ships were openly plundered, Cherib-
nefus laid Vv^afte, and Philip had invaded even the Territories
of Athens ; when the Affair was no longer Matter of Doubt,
but Hoftilities were a6lually commenced, yet this Sychophant,
who mouths his Iambics fo tragically, hath not one Decree,
whether of greater or lefs Importance, to produce for the Ad-
vantage of the Republic. If he dares affert the contrary, let
him produce it in thefe Hours allotted for my Defence. But
there is not any fuch Decree. From whence, one of thefe two
Confcquences mufl: neceffarily follow, either that he was inca-
pable of finding Fault with my Condud, and therefore did not
offer any other Decrees ; or being folicitous to promote theln-
tercfts of our Enemies, was determined not to propofe any
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better Meafures. But when he found a PoffibiHty of working
any execrable Mifchief, did he ftill refufe to prefer any Decree ?
Was he flill obflinatcly filent ? No. He would not then
fufFer any one elfe even to fpeak.
His other, fecret Pradices, the Commonwealth might per-
haps have endured ; but one daring A61 of Villainy hath crown-
ed and compleated all the former. That A 61, upon which he
confumed fo confiderabie a Part of his Harangue, when he
feemed determined utterly to pervert the very Nature of Truth
by a perplexed and tedious Enumeration of Locrian Decrees
and Refolutions. But impoffible. How can Truth be per-
verted by Falfehood ? It is not, ^fchines, in the Multitude
of Words to wafli away the Guiit of this Tranfadion. But I
here invoke, O Men of Athens, in your Prefence, all our Gods
and Goddeffes, who graciou fiy prefide over thefe Territories,
efpecially the Pythian Apollo, the God of our A. nc? ftors, and
implore them all to grant me Happinefs and Health, as I now
fpeak truly, or as I truly fpoke in your Affembly, when I
firft perceived (for I perceived, and inftantly perceived) this un-
hallowed Wretch engaging in thefe execrable Designs. IBut if
in perfonal Enmity to him, or Love of Oppofition, I now ac-
cufe him falfely, may thofe Gods render me for ever incapable
of enjoying the Bleflings I pollefs. But wherefore this earneft
Invocation, or why thefe vehement Exclamations ? Becaufe,
although I can indifputably prove the Fadls, whereof I (hall
nccufe him, by our public Records ; although I am perfuaded.
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that you yourfelvcs perfedly remember the whole Tranfadion^
yet I am apprehenfive he may be deemed too incon{iderable ta
be capable of working fuch enormous Mifchiefs. Thus it hap-
pened before, when he brought hither his Falichoods from
Macedonia, and utterly wrought the Deftrudion of the mifera-r
ble Phoc^eans. For iEfchines was the fole Contriver of the Am-
phiflaean War ; that War, by which Philip got Poficflion of
Elatsa ; by which he was elected Commander in Chief of the
Amphidlyons, and overturned th& whole imperial Conftitution
of Greece : j^fchines alone was the Caufe of all our fevereft
Misfortunes. When, at the Moment, I entered my Proteft
againft him, and cried aloud in the Affembly, " You bring a
*' War, i^lfchines, into Attica J the Amphidyonic War," fome
of his Party, convened by him for that Purpofe, would not
fuffer me to proceed ; while others were aftonifhed, and even
fufpeded, that in perfonal Hatred I had charged him with an
imaginary Crime. Now hear, O Men of Athens, Unce you
were not then permitted to hear, the Nature and Circumftances
of this Affair ; with what View the Projedl was contrived,
and how it was carried into Execution. You will behold a
Scheme admirably well concerted ; you will receive no incon-
fiderable Lights with regard to this Period of your Hiftory, and
obferve how great was Philip's Dexterity, and Addrefs.
It was impofTible for him to exped a happy Iffue of the
War, or to be relieved from its Diftrefles, except he could en-
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gage the Thebans and Theflalians in a Quarrel with this Repub-
lic. For although your Generals conducted the War againfl
him unfortunately, and with very unequal Abilities, yet the
War itfelf, and our Privateers wrougrht him a thoufand Mif-
chiefs. He could neither export the Produce of his own King-
dom, or import whatever NecefTaries he wanted from other
Countries. He was neither, at that Time, fuperior to us by
Sea, nor powerful enough by Land to have invaded Attica, if
the Theffalians had not followed his Standards, or the The-
bans opened him a Paffage through their Dominions. What-
ever Superiority he gained over the Generals, fuch as they
were (for their Charaders are not at prelent under our Confl-
derationj whom you employed againft him, yet by the Nature
and Situation of the Country, where the War was carried on,
and by fome Advantages we mutually enjoyed, he was infi-
nitely diftrelTed. If he fliould attempt, upon Motives of his own
perfonal Enmity alone, to induce the Theffalians and Thebans
to invade us, he was convinced, they would pay him very little
Attention ; but if, by affuming the fpecious Appearance of a
common Caufe, he could be chofen General of the Amphicly-
ons, he then hoped to fucceed more eafily, either by Artifice
or Perfuafion. What therefore was the Plan he propofed ?
Behold how admirably concerted. To kindle a War againfl:
the Amphidyons, and to raife Diffentions in their Counfels at
Thermopylte, from whence he prefumed, they would immedi-
ately apply to him for Affiftance. If however he fliould em-
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ploy either his awn Deputies, or thofe of his Confederates in
the Scheme, he was juftly apprehcnfive, that the Thebans and
ThefTahans would fufpedl; him, and the Grecians in general be
more upon their Guard. But if an Athenian j a Deputy, ap-
pointed by a People, who had declared themfelves his Enemies,
would negotiate the Affair, he doubted not, as in Fad it
happened, that he fhould conceal his Defign. But how did he
execute his Projeft? He bribed this Traitor. Then, while
we were in general, I believe, unapprehenfive of their Inten-
tions, or (as it ufually happens in your Affairs) not fufEciently
careful to prevent their taking Effed, it was propofed to fend
^fchines Ambaffador to the Congrefs at Thermopylas, and
when three or four of his own Fadion had given him their Suf-
frages, he was declared duly eledled>> Being thus inverted with
the Authority of the Republic, he entered into the Council of
the Amphidlyons, and there, negledling and treating every other
Confideration with Contempt, he fludioufly applied himfelf to*
perfe6t the great Work of his Corruption. Having compofed a.
very fpecious Harangue, and difplayed his Invention in a fabu-
lous Story of the Confecration of the Cirrhtean Lands, he fo far
impofed upon the Deputies, Men unexperienced in the Subtleties
of Eloquence, and little fagacious to- forefee the Confequences
of their Compliance, as to perfuade them to decree, that a
Survey fhould be taken of the Territories, which the Am-
phiffasans afferted to be their Property, and had therefore cul-
tivated, but which iEfchines with loud Accufations of Sacrilege
affirmed
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