The World's Great Classics, Volume 26Colonial Press, 1899 |
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Page 75
... Ambassadors were sent soon after from Athens , with full powers to conclude the treaty . In the first of these embassies Demosthenes had met with some Athenian prisoners in Macedon , whom he promised to redeem 75 TH ...
... Ambassadors were sent soon after from Athens , with full powers to conclude the treaty . In the first of these embassies Demosthenes had met with some Athenian prisoners in Macedon , whom he promised to redeem 75 TH ...
Page 76
... ambassadors , he found means to defer the exe- cution of it until he had advanced his troops into Thessaly , in order to proceed against the Phocians . He then conducted the peace ; and , on their return , the ambassadors who had ...
... ambassadors , he found means to defer the exe- cution of it until he had advanced his troops into Thessaly , in order to proceed against the Phocians . He then conducted the peace ; and , on their return , the ambassadors who had ...
Page 91
... ambassadors the conclusion of a league which was necessary for their common safety . All the powers interested in crossing this league used their utmost diligence to that end . Philip , by his minsters , represented to the Athenians ...
... ambassadors the conclusion of a league which was necessary for their common safety . All the powers interested in crossing this league used their utmost diligence to that end . Philip , by his minsters , represented to the Athenians ...
Page 92
... therefore in doubt what answer to give to the Lacedæmonian ambassadors : on which occasion Demosthenes pronounced the following oration . THE SECOND PHILIPPIC Pronounced in the Archonship of Lyciscus , 92 DEMOSTHENES.
... therefore in doubt what answer to give to the Lacedæmonian ambassadors : on which occasion Demosthenes pronounced the following oration . THE SECOND PHILIPPIC Pronounced in the Archonship of Lyciscus , 92 DEMOSTHENES.
Page 97
... ambassadors while I was present , and probably were af- terward repeated , yet still they have no less dependence on the friendship and the promises of Philip . But it is not strange that the Messenians and some of the Peloponnesians ...
... ambassadors while I was present , and probably were af- terward repeated , yet still they have no less dependence on the friendship and the promises of Philip . But it is not strange that the Messenians and some of the Peloponnesians ...
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