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Demosthenes - Orations - v2
Orations of Demosthenes, translated by the Rev.
Mr.
Francis, with
critical and historical notes.
Demosthenes.
London : Printed for A. Millar, 1757-58.
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? ORATIONS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
AND
iE S C H I N E S,
Tranflated by the Rev. Mr. FRANCIS.
VOL. ir.
LONDON;
Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand.
M DCC LVIII.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
IN the former Volume we have feen the People of Athens,
guided by the Counfels and animated by the Eloquence
of their great Orator, almoft alone fupporting the Liberties
of Greece. We fhall hereafter fee them involved in the com-
mon Slavery, yet diftinguifhed by their Conqueror with pe-
culiar Marks of his Clemency. Both Philip and his Succeflbr
permitted them to enjoy their Laws and Conftitution ; their
Senate and Aflemblies. Yet their Povi^er is no longer exerted
in the Deftination of Fleets and Armies, but in punifhing their
own unhappy Citizens. Their Aflemblies are no longer em-
ployed in fuccouring their Allies, or fupporting their own, and
the univerlal Liberties of Greece, but in hearing their Orators
accufe each other, v/ith a Malignity, that offers Violence and
Outrage to the common Sentiments of Humanity. In certain
Confequence, the People are divided into Fadions, and the
public Spirit, that might pofTibly have made fome powerful
and effed:ual Effort againft the common Oppreflbr, is diflipated
and wafled in unavailing and pernicious Contefts.
We are not able to determine upon the Succefs of the firfl
Profecution. -ffifchines was probably acquitted, but with
what Degree of Infamy or Honour is uncertain. In the fe-
cond he was condemned, and although the Fine impofed upon
him
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? ADVERTISEMENT.
him by the Laws was inconfiderable, and which he could
eafily have paid, yet he chofe perpetual Banifhment, rather
than live in Athens under the Charader of a Traitor and In^
former. He retired to Rhodes, where he purchafed a little
Eftate, and taught Rhetoric for his Subfiftcnce. Thefe Cir-
ciimftances appear in Favour of his Innocence ; for we can
hardly fuppofe, that a Man, who muft have been largely re-
warded by Philip for betraying his Country, aad who was at
that Moment a Penfioner of Alexander, could have been re-
duced to fuch Neceflity. But the Athenian People were better
Judges of Eloquence by their Paffions, than of Reaibn and
Juftice by their Underftanding. The Caufe was really that of
Eloquence itfelf ; and in fuch a Caufe Demofthenes muft un-
doubtedly have been fuccefsful. Thus did the Republic lofe
by this unhappy Conteft a Citizen of eminent Abilities, and
Eloquence inferior only to that of Demofthenes.
It now remains to make pubKc Acknowledgement of the
Afliftance I have received in the following Work. The firft
Oration is tranflated into Italian ; the fecond into Latin only ;
the two laft into French and Italian. All thefe I have ufed
without Referve, and, I hope, not without Advantage. Per-
haps, in the common Forms among V/riters, this general Ac-
knowledgement may be fufficient. But it were difingenuous
and ungrateful not to mention a late Edition of our Author
by Dodtor Taylor, in a more particular Manner. This very
valuable
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? ADVERTISEMENT.
valuable Work cannot want my Teftimony to its Merit. Let
me however be permitted to fay, that whatever Thanks are
due to the Diligence and Accuracy of collating Manufcripts
and Editions, or of fearching through all the Writers of An-
tiquity for PafTages, that might afcertain the original Text,
are undoubtedly due to this Gentleman. A great Number of
conjedural Emendations will certainly do honour to his critical
Sagacity ; but his peculiar Merit confifts in his Knowledge
of the Athenian Courts of Judicature ; their Laws and Ufages,
and Terms employed in their Pleadings ; a Kind of Erudition,
that was greatly wanted, and abfolutely neceilary to explain a
thoufand Difficulties in thefe Orations.
How much I am indebted to this Writer will appear in every
Page, and almoft in every Sentence of the following Tranfla-
tion. Yet, it may be objedled, I have fometimes differed from
him in Opinion. Never without Unwillingnefs and Appre-
henfion ; certainly never in a Prefumption of that Equality or
Superiority, which Difference in Opinion generally fuppofes.
I HAVE now finiflied a difficult and a laborious Tafk.
Whatever may be the Merit or Succefs of this Tranflation, I
can truly fay I have endeavoured to deferve the public Appro-
bation ; to be juft to my Subfcribers, and grateful to the Gen-
tleman, who has honoured it with his Patronage.
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? CONTENTS.
ORATION Page
XV. Demosthenes againfl: ^schines for Misconduct
in his Embassy - - i
XVI. ^scHiNEs hij Defence - - 155
XVII. ^scHiNES againfl Ctesiphon - 235
XVIII. Demosthenes in Defence of Ctesiphon 358
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ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S
for Mifconduft in his Embafly.
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? ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S for
. Mifcondudl: in his EmbraTy.
WHAT violent Contefts, O Men of Athens, what In-
trigues have appeared during this Trial, I prefumc
you are almoft univerfally fenfible, lince you have
undoubtedly obferved fome certain Perfons, vi^hen the Lots were
drawing at the late Eledion, and You were appointed out-
Judges, importunate and prelling upon you with their Soli-
citations. But I fhall implore, what ought in Equity to be
granted even to them, who do not implore it, that neither
perfonal Friendfliip, nor the Interefl: of any particular Perfon,
may have a greater Influence over you, than your Regard for
Juftice,
The Title of this Oration hath never Juftice, Ju IndiBment upon the Law of
been accurately exprefTed in the Original. Embajfies ; or, as we might exprefs it,
Cicero renders it Orat'w falfe legat'tonis An Jifion upon the Statute. Unable to
contra . Efchinejn ; and other Latin Writ- convey thefe Ideas to his Readers by any
ers, Oratio ie male obita, vmie gejh, ExpreiT:on in our Courts, the Tranflator
and cmentita legatione, from whence the hatli chofen a fimpler, and, he hopes,
Italian, Oratione della falfa anibafcieria. a more intelligible I icie for the Oration. '
None of thefe Translations pay any At- The Reader may find a fhort Account
tendon to the part'cular Meaning of of this Embaffy, Page i/Sof thefirft
Ud'puTr^tirQilx, which lignifies, m the VolunjC.
L;nguage of the Athenian Courts of
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? ORATIONS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
AND
iE S C H I N E S,
Tranflated by the Rev. Mr. FRANCIS.
VOL. ir.
LONDON;
Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand.
M DCC LVIII.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
IN the former Volume we have feen the People of Athens,
guided by the Counfels and animated by the Eloquence
of their great Orator, almoft alone fupporting the Liberties
of Greece. We fhall hereafter fee them involved in the com-
mon Slavery, yet diftinguifhed by their Conqueror with pe-
culiar Marks of his Clemency. Both Philip and his Succeflbr
permitted them to enjoy their Laws and Conftitution ; their
Senate and Aflemblies. Yet their Povi^er is no longer exerted
in the Deftination of Fleets and Armies, but in punifhing their
own unhappy Citizens. Their Aflemblies are no longer em-
ployed in fuccouring their Allies, or fupporting their own, and
the univerlal Liberties of Greece, but in hearing their Orators
accufe each other, v/ith a Malignity, that offers Violence and
Outrage to the common Sentiments of Humanity. In certain
Confequence, the People are divided into Fadions, and the
public Spirit, that might pofTibly have made fome powerful
and effed:ual Effort againft the common Oppreflbr, is diflipated
and wafled in unavailing and pernicious Contefts.
We are not able to determine upon the Succefs of the firfl
Profecution. -ffifchines was probably acquitted, but with
what Degree of Infamy or Honour is uncertain. In the fe-
cond he was condemned, and although the Fine impofed upon
him
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? ADVERTISEMENT.
him by the Laws was inconfiderable, and which he could
eafily have paid, yet he chofe perpetual Banifhment, rather
than live in Athens under the Charader of a Traitor and In^
former. He retired to Rhodes, where he purchafed a little
Eftate, and taught Rhetoric for his Subfiftcnce. Thefe Cir-
ciimftances appear in Favour of his Innocence ; for we can
hardly fuppofe, that a Man, who muft have been largely re-
warded by Philip for betraying his Country, aad who was at
that Moment a Penfioner of Alexander, could have been re-
duced to fuch Neceflity. But the Athenian People were better
Judges of Eloquence by their Paffions, than of Reaibn and
Juftice by their Underftanding. The Caufe was really that of
Eloquence itfelf ; and in fuch a Caufe Demofthenes muft un-
doubtedly have been fuccefsful. Thus did the Republic lofe
by this unhappy Conteft a Citizen of eminent Abilities, and
Eloquence inferior only to that of Demofthenes.
It now remains to make pubKc Acknowledgement of the
Afliftance I have received in the following Work. The firft
Oration is tranflated into Italian ; the fecond into Latin only ;
the two laft into French and Italian. All thefe I have ufed
without Referve, and, I hope, not without Advantage. Per-
haps, in the common Forms among V/riters, this general Ac-
knowledgement may be fufficient. But it were difingenuous
and ungrateful not to mention a late Edition of our Author
by Dodtor Taylor, in a more particular Manner. This very
valuable
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? ADVERTISEMENT.
valuable Work cannot want my Teftimony to its Merit. Let
me however be permitted to fay, that whatever Thanks are
due to the Diligence and Accuracy of collating Manufcripts
and Editions, or of fearching through all the Writers of An-
tiquity for PafTages, that might afcertain the original Text,
are undoubtedly due to this Gentleman. A great Number of
conjedural Emendations will certainly do honour to his critical
Sagacity ; but his peculiar Merit confifts in his Knowledge
of the Athenian Courts of Judicature ; their Laws and Ufages,
and Terms employed in their Pleadings ; a Kind of Erudition,
that was greatly wanted, and abfolutely neceilary to explain a
thoufand Difficulties in thefe Orations.
How much I am indebted to this Writer will appear in every
Page, and almoft in every Sentence of the following Tranfla-
tion. Yet, it may be objedled, I have fometimes differed from
him in Opinion. Never without Unwillingnefs and Appre-
henfion ; certainly never in a Prefumption of that Equality or
Superiority, which Difference in Opinion generally fuppofes.
I HAVE now finiflied a difficult and a laborious Tafk.
Whatever may be the Merit or Succefs of this Tranflation, I
can truly fay I have endeavoured to deferve the public Appro-
bation ; to be juft to my Subfcribers, and grateful to the Gen-
tleman, who has honoured it with his Patronage.
CO N-
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? CONTENTS.
ORATION Page
XV. Demosthenes againfl: ^schines for Misconduct
in his Embassy - - i
XVI. ^scHiNEs hij Defence - - 155
XVII. ^scHiNES againfl Ctesiphon - 235
XVIII. Demosthenes in Defence of Ctesiphon 358
O R A-
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ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S
for Mifconduft in his Embafly.
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? ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S for
. Mifcondudl: in his EmbraTy.
WHAT violent Contefts, O Men of Athens, what In-
trigues have appeared during this Trial, I prefumc
you are almoft univerfally fenfible, lince you have
undoubtedly obferved fome certain Perfons, vi^hen the Lots were
drawing at the late Eledion, and You were appointed out-
Judges, importunate and prelling upon you with their Soli-
citations. But I fhall implore, what ought in Equity to be
granted even to them, who do not implore it, that neither
perfonal Friendfliip, nor the Interefl: of any particular Perfon,
may have a greater Influence over you, than your Regard for
Juftice,
The Title of this Oration hath never Juftice, Ju IndiBment upon the Law of
been accurately exprefTed in the Original. Embajfies ; or, as we might exprefs it,
Cicero renders it Orat'w falfe legat'tonis An Jifion upon the Statute. Unable to
contra . Efchinejn ; and other Latin Writ- convey thefe Ideas to his Readers by any
ers, Oratio ie male obita, vmie gejh, ExpreiT:on in our Courts, the Tranflator
and cmentita legatione, from whence the hatli chofen a fimpler, and, he hopes,
Italian, Oratione della falfa anibafcieria. a more intelligible I icie for the Oration. '
None of thefe Translations pay any At- The Reader may find a fhort Account
tendon to the part'cular Meaning of of this Embaffy, Page i/Sof thefirft
Ud'puTr^tirQilx, which lignifies, m the VolunjC.
L;nguage of the Athenian Courts of
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? 4 ORATIONSOF
Juftice, and the Reverence due to that Oath, which each of
you folemnly fwore when lie entered into this Aflembly. Be
convinced, that fuch Conduct will be to you mofl advanta-
geous, and to the whole Republic ; but that the SuppHcations
and Earneftnefs of the declared Advocates in this Caufe are in-
tended for fome private Advantages, for Prevention of which
the Laws have this Day convened You, not to confirm them
as Privileges to the iinjuft.
Our other Citizens, who enter with an upright Intention
into the Service of the Public, although they have already
made Report of their Adminiftration, are always willing, and
even offer themfelves to any fecond Inquiry. In dired Op-
pofition to their Condud is that of i^fchines ; for before he
appeared upon his Trial, and palled the Accounts of his Em-
baffy, he rendered one of the Perfons, who defigned to pro-
fecute him, incapable of giving a legal Evidence againfl: him j (i)
others he deterred with Menaces, taking his Progrefs through
the City for that Purpofe, and introducing, into your Govern-
ment
(i) Timafchus, whom our Orator here He was condemned under the Statute of
aneans, and whom he frequently mentions Infamy, a Law-Term not unHke that
in this Oration, was a Man of Abilities, of Outlawry, by which he was deprived
and Intereft in the Republic. He had of all the Privileges of an Athenian Ci-
dctermincd to profecute TEfchines upon tizen, and rendered incapable of giving
this Otcaru)n, but ^Ichines prevented his Teftimony, or pleading in a Courc
him with an Accuiation upon the Licen- of Judicature,
tioulhels and Impurity of his Manners.
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critical and historical notes.
Demosthenes.
London : Printed for A. Millar, 1757-58.
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Public Domain
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? ORATIONS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
AND
iE S C H I N E S,
Tranflated by the Rev. Mr. FRANCIS.
VOL. ir.
LONDON;
Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand.
M DCC LVIII.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
IN the former Volume we have feen the People of Athens,
guided by the Counfels and animated by the Eloquence
of their great Orator, almoft alone fupporting the Liberties
of Greece. We fhall hereafter fee them involved in the com-
mon Slavery, yet diftinguifhed by their Conqueror with pe-
culiar Marks of his Clemency. Both Philip and his Succeflbr
permitted them to enjoy their Laws and Conftitution ; their
Senate and Aflemblies. Yet their Povi^er is no longer exerted
in the Deftination of Fleets and Armies, but in punifhing their
own unhappy Citizens. Their Aflemblies are no longer em-
ployed in fuccouring their Allies, or fupporting their own, and
the univerlal Liberties of Greece, but in hearing their Orators
accufe each other, v/ith a Malignity, that offers Violence and
Outrage to the common Sentiments of Humanity. In certain
Confequence, the People are divided into Fadions, and the
public Spirit, that might pofTibly have made fome powerful
and effed:ual Effort againft the common Oppreflbr, is diflipated
and wafled in unavailing and pernicious Contefts.
We are not able to determine upon the Succefs of the firfl
Profecution. -ffifchines was probably acquitted, but with
what Degree of Infamy or Honour is uncertain. In the fe-
cond he was condemned, and although the Fine impofed upon
him
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him by the Laws was inconfiderable, and which he could
eafily have paid, yet he chofe perpetual Banifhment, rather
than live in Athens under the Charader of a Traitor and In^
former. He retired to Rhodes, where he purchafed a little
Eftate, and taught Rhetoric for his Subfiftcnce. Thefe Cir-
ciimftances appear in Favour of his Innocence ; for we can
hardly fuppofe, that a Man, who muft have been largely re-
warded by Philip for betraying his Country, aad who was at
that Moment a Penfioner of Alexander, could have been re-
duced to fuch Neceflity. But the Athenian People were better
Judges of Eloquence by their Paffions, than of Reaibn and
Juftice by their Underftanding. The Caufe was really that of
Eloquence itfelf ; and in fuch a Caufe Demofthenes muft un-
doubtedly have been fuccefsful. Thus did the Republic lofe
by this unhappy Conteft a Citizen of eminent Abilities, and
Eloquence inferior only to that of Demofthenes.
It now remains to make pubKc Acknowledgement of the
Afliftance I have received in the following Work. The firft
Oration is tranflated into Italian ; the fecond into Latin only ;
the two laft into French and Italian. All thefe I have ufed
without Referve, and, I hope, not without Advantage. Per-
haps, in the common Forms among V/riters, this general Ac-
knowledgement may be fufficient. But it were difingenuous
and ungrateful not to mention a late Edition of our Author
by Dodtor Taylor, in a more particular Manner. This very
valuable
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valuable Work cannot want my Teftimony to its Merit. Let
me however be permitted to fay, that whatever Thanks are
due to the Diligence and Accuracy of collating Manufcripts
and Editions, or of fearching through all the Writers of An-
tiquity for PafTages, that might afcertain the original Text,
are undoubtedly due to this Gentleman. A great Number of
conjedural Emendations will certainly do honour to his critical
Sagacity ; but his peculiar Merit confifts in his Knowledge
of the Athenian Courts of Judicature ; their Laws and Ufages,
and Terms employed in their Pleadings ; a Kind of Erudition,
that was greatly wanted, and abfolutely neceilary to explain a
thoufand Difficulties in thefe Orations.
How much I am indebted to this Writer will appear in every
Page, and almoft in every Sentence of the following Tranfla-
tion. Yet, it may be objedled, I have fometimes differed from
him in Opinion. Never without Unwillingnefs and Appre-
henfion ; certainly never in a Prefumption of that Equality or
Superiority, which Difference in Opinion generally fuppofes.
I HAVE now finiflied a difficult and a laborious Tafk.
Whatever may be the Merit or Succefs of this Tranflation, I
can truly fay I have endeavoured to deferve the public Appro-
bation ; to be juft to my Subfcribers, and grateful to the Gen-
tleman, who has honoured it with his Patronage.
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? CONTENTS.
ORATION Page
XV. Demosthenes againfl: ^schines for Misconduct
in his Embassy - - i
XVI. ^scHiNEs hij Defence - - 155
XVII. ^scHiNES againfl Ctesiphon - 235
XVIII. Demosthenes in Defence of Ctesiphon 358
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ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S
for Mifconduft in his Embafly.
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? ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S for
. Mifcondudl: in his EmbraTy.
WHAT violent Contefts, O Men of Athens, what In-
trigues have appeared during this Trial, I prefumc
you are almoft univerfally fenfible, lince you have
undoubtedly obferved fome certain Perfons, vi^hen the Lots were
drawing at the late Eledion, and You were appointed out-
Judges, importunate and prelling upon you with their Soli-
citations. But I fhall implore, what ought in Equity to be
granted even to them, who do not implore it, that neither
perfonal Friendfliip, nor the Interefl: of any particular Perfon,
may have a greater Influence over you, than your Regard for
Juftice,
The Title of this Oration hath never Juftice, Ju IndiBment upon the Law of
been accurately exprefTed in the Original. Embajfies ; or, as we might exprefs it,
Cicero renders it Orat'w falfe legat'tonis An Jifion upon the Statute. Unable to
contra . Efchinejn ; and other Latin Writ- convey thefe Ideas to his Readers by any
ers, Oratio ie male obita, vmie gejh, ExpreiT:on in our Courts, the Tranflator
and cmentita legatione, from whence the hatli chofen a fimpler, and, he hopes,
Italian, Oratione della falfa anibafcieria. a more intelligible I icie for the Oration. '
None of thefe Translations pay any At- The Reader may find a fhort Account
tendon to the part'cular Meaning of of this Embaffy, Page i/Sof thefirft
Ud'puTr^tirQilx, which lignifies, m the VolunjC.
L;nguage of the Athenian Courts of
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? ORATIONS
OF
DEMOSTHENES
AND
iE S C H I N E S,
Tranflated by the Rev. Mr. FRANCIS.
VOL. ir.
LONDON;
Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand.
M DCC LVIII.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
IN the former Volume we have feen the People of Athens,
guided by the Counfels and animated by the Eloquence
of their great Orator, almoft alone fupporting the Liberties
of Greece. We fhall hereafter fee them involved in the com-
mon Slavery, yet diftinguifhed by their Conqueror with pe-
culiar Marks of his Clemency. Both Philip and his Succeflbr
permitted them to enjoy their Laws and Conftitution ; their
Senate and Aflemblies. Yet their Povi^er is no longer exerted
in the Deftination of Fleets and Armies, but in punifhing their
own unhappy Citizens. Their Aflemblies are no longer em-
ployed in fuccouring their Allies, or fupporting their own, and
the univerlal Liberties of Greece, but in hearing their Orators
accufe each other, v/ith a Malignity, that offers Violence and
Outrage to the common Sentiments of Humanity. In certain
Confequence, the People are divided into Fadions, and the
public Spirit, that might pofTibly have made fome powerful
and effed:ual Effort againft the common Oppreflbr, is diflipated
and wafled in unavailing and pernicious Contefts.
We are not able to determine upon the Succefs of the firfl
Profecution. -ffifchines was probably acquitted, but with
what Degree of Infamy or Honour is uncertain. In the fe-
cond he was condemned, and although the Fine impofed upon
him
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? ADVERTISEMENT.
him by the Laws was inconfiderable, and which he could
eafily have paid, yet he chofe perpetual Banifhment, rather
than live in Athens under the Charader of a Traitor and In^
former. He retired to Rhodes, where he purchafed a little
Eftate, and taught Rhetoric for his Subfiftcnce. Thefe Cir-
ciimftances appear in Favour of his Innocence ; for we can
hardly fuppofe, that a Man, who muft have been largely re-
warded by Philip for betraying his Country, aad who was at
that Moment a Penfioner of Alexander, could have been re-
duced to fuch Neceflity. But the Athenian People were better
Judges of Eloquence by their Paffions, than of Reaibn and
Juftice by their Underftanding. The Caufe was really that of
Eloquence itfelf ; and in fuch a Caufe Demofthenes muft un-
doubtedly have been fuccefsful. Thus did the Republic lofe
by this unhappy Conteft a Citizen of eminent Abilities, and
Eloquence inferior only to that of Demofthenes.
It now remains to make pubKc Acknowledgement of the
Afliftance I have received in the following Work. The firft
Oration is tranflated into Italian ; the fecond into Latin only ;
the two laft into French and Italian. All thefe I have ufed
without Referve, and, I hope, not without Advantage. Per-
haps, in the common Forms among V/riters, this general Ac-
knowledgement may be fufficient. But it were difingenuous
and ungrateful not to mention a late Edition of our Author
by Dodtor Taylor, in a more particular Manner. This very
valuable
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? ADVERTISEMENT.
valuable Work cannot want my Teftimony to its Merit. Let
me however be permitted to fay, that whatever Thanks are
due to the Diligence and Accuracy of collating Manufcripts
and Editions, or of fearching through all the Writers of An-
tiquity for PafTages, that might afcertain the original Text,
are undoubtedly due to this Gentleman. A great Number of
conjedural Emendations will certainly do honour to his critical
Sagacity ; but his peculiar Merit confifts in his Knowledge
of the Athenian Courts of Judicature ; their Laws and Ufages,
and Terms employed in their Pleadings ; a Kind of Erudition,
that was greatly wanted, and abfolutely neceilary to explain a
thoufand Difficulties in thefe Orations.
How much I am indebted to this Writer will appear in every
Page, and almoft in every Sentence of the following Tranfla-
tion. Yet, it may be objedled, I have fometimes differed from
him in Opinion. Never without Unwillingnefs and Appre-
henfion ; certainly never in a Prefumption of that Equality or
Superiority, which Difference in Opinion generally fuppofes.
I HAVE now finiflied a difficult and a laborious Tafk.
Whatever may be the Merit or Succefs of this Tranflation, I
can truly fay I have endeavoured to deferve the public Appro-
bation ; to be juft to my Subfcribers, and grateful to the Gen-
tleman, who has honoured it with his Patronage.
CO N-
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? CONTENTS.
ORATION Page
XV. Demosthenes againfl: ^schines for Misconduct
in his Embassy - - i
XVI. ^scHiNEs hij Defence - - 155
XVII. ^scHiNES againfl Ctesiphon - 235
XVIII. Demosthenes in Defence of Ctesiphon 358
O R A-
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ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S
for Mifconduft in his Embafly.
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? ORATION XV.
Upon an Indiament againft ^ S C H I N E S for
. Mifcondudl: in his EmbraTy.
WHAT violent Contefts, O Men of Athens, what In-
trigues have appeared during this Trial, I prefumc
you are almoft univerfally fenfible, lince you have
undoubtedly obferved fome certain Perfons, vi^hen the Lots were
drawing at the late Eledion, and You were appointed out-
Judges, importunate and prelling upon you with their Soli-
citations. But I fhall implore, what ought in Equity to be
granted even to them, who do not implore it, that neither
perfonal Friendfliip, nor the Interefl: of any particular Perfon,
may have a greater Influence over you, than your Regard for
Juftice,
The Title of this Oration hath never Juftice, Ju IndiBment upon the Law of
been accurately exprefTed in the Original. Embajfies ; or, as we might exprefs it,
Cicero renders it Orat'w falfe legat'tonis An Jifion upon the Statute. Unable to
contra . Efchinejn ; and other Latin Writ- convey thefe Ideas to his Readers by any
ers, Oratio ie male obita, vmie gejh, ExpreiT:on in our Courts, the Tranflator
and cmentita legatione, from whence the hatli chofen a fimpler, and, he hopes,
Italian, Oratione della falfa anibafcieria. a more intelligible I icie for the Oration. '
None of thefe Translations pay any At- The Reader may find a fhort Account
tendon to the part'cular Meaning of of this Embaffy, Page i/Sof thefirft
Ud'puTr^tirQilx, which lignifies, m the VolunjC.
L;nguage of the Athenian Courts of
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? 4 ORATIONSOF
Juftice, and the Reverence due to that Oath, which each of
you folemnly fwore when lie entered into this Aflembly. Be
convinced, that fuch Conduct will be to you mofl advanta-
geous, and to the whole Republic ; but that the SuppHcations
and Earneftnefs of the declared Advocates in this Caufe are in-
tended for fome private Advantages, for Prevention of which
the Laws have this Day convened You, not to confirm them
as Privileges to the iinjuft.
Our other Citizens, who enter with an upright Intention
into the Service of the Public, although they have already
made Report of their Adminiftration, are always willing, and
even offer themfelves to any fecond Inquiry. In dired Op-
pofition to their Condud is that of i^fchines ; for before he
appeared upon his Trial, and palled the Accounts of his Em-
baffy, he rendered one of the Perfons, who defigned to pro-
fecute him, incapable of giving a legal Evidence againfl: him j (i)
others he deterred with Menaces, taking his Progrefs through
the City for that Purpofe, and introducing, into your Govern-
ment
(i) Timafchus, whom our Orator here He was condemned under the Statute of
aneans, and whom he frequently mentions Infamy, a Law-Term not unHke that
in this Oration, was a Man of Abilities, of Outlawry, by which he was deprived
and Intereft in the Republic. He had of all the Privileges of an Athenian Ci-
dctermincd to profecute TEfchines upon tizen, and rendered incapable of giving
this Otcaru)n, but ^Ichines prevented his Teftimony, or pleading in a Courc
him with an Accuiation upon the Licen- of Judicature,
tioulhels and Impurity of his Manners.
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