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A20143	The three orations of Demosthenes chiefe orator among the Grecians, in fauour of the Olynthians, a people in Thracia, now called Romania with those his fower orations titled expressely & by name against king Philip of Macedonie: most nedefull to be redde in these daungerous dayes, of all them that loue their countries libertie, and desire to take warning for their better auayle, by example of others. Englished out of the Greeke by Thomas Wylson doctor of the ciuill lawes. After these orations ended, Demosthenes lyfe is set foorth, and gathered out of Plutarch, Lucian, Suidas, and others, with a large table, declaring all the principall matters conteyned in euerye part of this booke. Seene and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Selections. English	Demosthenes.; Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.	1570 (1570)	STC 6578; ESTC S109558	171,123	198

therewithall his playfellowes commonlye called him by waye of scorne and mockage Battalus as much to say as wanton nise and effeminate after the conditiō of one Battalus a Musitian that was a womanishe man as tender a péece God wote as a Nunnes hen He was also called afterwards Argas by surre name as much to say as a biting Serpent applying the terme either to the fiercenesse and bitternesse of his nature or for that he was so sharp to the hearers in his Orations that they could not well abyde him Nowe that this his father was thus deade although it bée to others a great lacke for want of good bringing vp his mother being more tender than néeded louing hir sonne against reason as commonly mothers doe hauing greater care to hys wanton cherishing than to his good education he hauing lettes also besides this mo than a good many to do well yet such was his naturall inclination and aptnesse to all goodnesse and vertue that he of himself without guide or directour in his doings folowed the best and worthiest way that was for man to go in vpon earth For whereas Athens was a towne that ministred great pleasures and caryed some awaye to great follie that weare vnder the power and gouernment of their fathers and that all youth is commonly giuen to disorder and many times through default of their gouernors doe runne astray yet was this childe being verie yong and tender of yeares so wholy giuen to good learning that he forsooke all the vanities of the world to heare Aristotle Theophrastus and Plato thrée of the most famous learned men that euer weare So that whereas there be two wayes of loue offered to euery one at his first entrie to tread in the one sauage rude and wicked being the very path to hell death and damnation the other godly plaine right and honest being the high way to heauen and al the ioyes that may be the which way entiseth all good men to it through the beautie thereof draweth all them with an heauenly traunce or motion of minde that are borne of Gods race he tooke that louing way of vertue and through great paynes and trauaile gotte the immortall rewarde of his heauenly desire béeing knowne and reputed to bée one of the most famous Orators that euer lyued Nowe the cause that mooued him chiefly besides his naturall inclination to be so gréedie and so studious of eloquence was this It happened that when Calistratus that famous Orator shoulde handle the Oropians cause béeing a matter of so great importaunce as it touched the state of their towne there was like to be a maruellous audience not onely for the weightinesse thereof but also for the worthinesse of the Orator At which time it fortuned Demosthenes being then of verie yong yeares as it should séeme to heare certaine scholemaysters saye to his Mayster that they and he would go and heare the sayde Orator which made that the Boye was not quiet till by much intreatie he had obtayned of his teacher that he might also go with him Wherewith his maister was content and for that hée had good acquaintaunce with the officers and kéepers of that place he got an apt rowme for hys Boy to sit close and secrete where he might heare all that was to be sayde At last when Calistratus had excellently handled himselfe and was wonderfully estéemed for his eloquent Oration Demosthenes thought it a great honour to sée him so followed and attended vppon by the people and to be reported so worthie a man but most of all his woonder was that his maruellous eloquence was such as thereby he did preuayle in all causes and brought thinges to passe as he woulde haue them which fired so his heart that therevpon he gaue ouer all other kyndes of studie and began to exercise himselfe with making Orations as though that he himself would by and by be an Orator And so professed himselfe scholler to one Isaeus a maister of eloquence and not to Isocrates who was the more famous man and did reade at the selfe same tyme But the cause was as it is thought for that he had not wherewith to pay the pencion appoynted by Isocrates which was ten Minas ●hat is xxx pounde starling he being fatherlesse and motherle●●e ▪ and hauing no vse of his owne goodes as then or else he did rather choose to followe Isaeus for that his kinde of wryting and speaking was more pearcing and more cunning to season causes withall or as it may be thought more agréeable to his nature Some say agayne that he was scholler to Plato and by him did much aduaunce his skill for eloquence after whose death he became scholler to Aristotel and was his hearer so diligently and so prospered vnder him that he reported him afterwardes both to king Philip and to Alexander to be one of the worthiest schollers for diuers his giftes and vertues that euer he had It is also sayde that he had and did secretely learne the bookes of Isocrates and Alcidamantes touching the precepts of Rhetorike the which he had of one Callias a Siracusan and others And truth it is so soone as he was of full yeares and crept out of his minoritie he brought an action agaynst hys Tutors for their wasting of his Patrimonie committed to their charge and began to tytle Orations agaynst them the which are yet extant some of them in aunswering of whome they vsed great sleightes and delatorie plées with protestations and exceptions agaynst the whole processe as full of Nullities and therefore of no force And onely this they did bicause they would compell him to begin lawe againe and so in forme of lawe through continuall delayes to wearie him altogither Thus being with painefull trauaile and earnest studie well exercised and following his cause without intermission at length he preuayled agaynst them although he neyther got a quarter of his owne nor yet recouered that small portion which was awarded him without great perill and hazard And so by often dealing in his owne matters being well seasoned and made bolde through custome to speake and séeing what honour it was to be an excellent Orator he gaue himself to pleade openly and to be a Counsellor in other mens causes And as it is reported like as Orchomenius Laomedon did vse by the aduise of the Phisition to run euery day a long race to amende the fault of his splene and so by such exercise got such an habilitie and perfection in running that at the common games hée got the garland from all others and was counted the swiftest runner of all men liuing so happened it with Demosthenes that whilst he entered the Courtes to pleade his owne cause to recouer such losses and wronges as he had sustayned in his priuate goodes and possessions he thereby got himselfe such experience in pleading and such eloquence of speach therewithall that he was counted in ciuill

veyne and gift of writyng in all thinges And in deede such was Demosthenes diligence and painfulnesse about this Author that he did wryte out with his owne hande the whole hystorie of Thucidides being a booke fully so bigge as all the newe Testament is no lesse than eyght seuerall tymes A trauayle certes right painefull and yet the paynes very well bestowed when so good fruite did followe therevpon For no doubt Demosthenes by suche imitation and paynefull labor came to that heigth of perfection whereof he beareth the name that is to bee the chiefe Orator of all Greecelande yea of all the worlde besides I may well say For in three or fower poyntes vnited in him togither without doubt he passed greatly all others that euer weare First he had a singular iudgement to deuyse good matter and to dispose the same most aptly as tyme and place required Agayne he had the stomacke of a Lion to speake boldly although not to fight manfully and did vtter his meaning with such myght and grauitie that he appalled greatly the courages of all others whatsoeuer Thirdly his vtterance was so good beyng made so by Arte euen agaynst Nature that neuer anye hath had better eyther since or before Lastly he is to be praysed for that which passeth all other gyftes that is he was a very honest man a iust dealer a true subiect alwayes to his countrie And therefore although in some one of these gyftes he myght perhaps be matched yet was there neuer anye comparable to him for them all togyther And of these his doynges the world is so true a iudge that I neede not much to spende anye farther talke although some will saye that Tullie is to bee compared with hym in all things Of the which two men if I shoulde saye my mynde flatly there be perhaps that would byte the lippe at it and count mee fonde in myne enterprise And yet thus much I may boldly say that Demosthenes hath more matter couched in a small roume than Tullie hath in a large discourse that Demosthenes writing is more binding more fast firme and more agreable to our common maner of speach than Tullies Orations are And who so speaketh now as Demosthenes doth I doe thynke hee should be counted the wiser the more temperate and the more graue man a great deale than if he wholy followed Tullie and vsed his large veyne and vehement maner of eloquence Besides this Demosthenes vsed a playne familier maner of writing and speakyng in all his actions applying hymselfe to the peoples nature and to their vnderstanding without vsing of Proheme to wynne credite or deuysing conclusion to moue affections and to purchase fauor after he had done hys matter whereas Tullie with his flowing eloquence sought to wrest the iudges to hys purpose both at the beginning in the middle at the end not trusting as it shou●d seeme to the goodnesse of his cause or to speake more modestly it was sufferable in Rome to vse these practises of eloquence both in the beginning ending of their orations to aduance their matters withall the same being vtterly forbidde in Greecelande vpon paine of displeasure And were it not better more wisedome to speake plainly nakedly after the common sort of men in few words than to ouerflowe wyth vnnecessarie and superfluous eloquence as Cicero is thought sometimes to doe But perhaps wheras I haue bene somewhat curious to followe Demosthenes naturall phrase it may be thought that I doe speake ouer bare Englysh Well I had rather follow his veyne the whych was to speake simply and plainly to the cōmon peoples vnderstanding than to ouerflouryshe wyth superfluous speach although I might therby be counted equall with the best that euer wrate Englysh For Demosthenes speaketh alwayes matter hath such force in hys maner of wryting as no man hitherto hath euer bene able to expresse and all men haue styll had hym in moste hygh admiration for the same But why doe I compare these two noble vertues togyther makyng the one better than the other whereas they weare both most excellent Orators and chiefe ornamentes of eyther their owne countries in their dayes both of them a rare example of nature and such as none in anye age hath bene lyke for excellencie to eyther of them Then what needes such comparisons when both are equally chiefe in their kynde as Quintilian hath very well declared in rehearsing their vertues seuerally and in lapping vp his matter sayth in thys wise that vnto Tullie nothing can be added and from Demosthenes nothyng can be taken away wythout harme doyng to eyther of them And therefore to returne to Demosthenes I saye he is to be read of yong and olde of learned and vnlearned of wyse and vnwyse for that he hath in hym to serue all mens turnes whatsoeuer He that loues hys countrye and desires to procure the welfare of it let him reade Demosthenes and he shall not want matter to doe hymselfe good For him that seekes common quietnesse Demosthenes can ●eache hym the lesson he that woulde gladlye preuent euyll to come Demosthenes is for his purpose He that desires to serue hys Countrye abrode let hym reade Demosthenes day and nyght for this is he that is able to make hym fitte to doe any seruyce for his Countryes welfare For neuer dyd glasse so truely represent a mans face as Demosthenes doth shewe the worlde to vs and as it was then so it is now and wyll be so still tyll the consummation and ende of all things shall be The Deuill neuer ceaseth from the beginning of the worlde to make diuision betwixt Countrie and Countrie to stirre ciuill warre to enboulden the commons agaynst their superiours to put euill thoughts into Counsellers heades to make people ambicious and couetous and to corrupt the hartes euen of the very messengers and preachers of Gods word continuing his practyse styll in all places wyth all men And therefore seeyng Demosthenes is so good a Schoolemayster for man to decypher the Deuill and hys ministers for the aduauncement of vpryghtnesse in all thinges I would wyshe that all men woulde become his Scholers yea if it might bee I would that all youth weare first taught Greke for so Quintilian would haue it and that they after some rypenesse in the tongue and of elder yeares weare fully acquaynted wyth Demosthenes to learne hym without booke that they myght perfite their iudgementes by oft readyng so worthy a man Alexander was angrye wyth a Schoolemayster of children bicause he did not teache them Homer I wyll not be angrye wyth Schoolemaysters but I woulde wyshe that Schollers beyng of rype yeares and otherwyse trayned before in other Authors weare taught Demosthenes and not Homere onelye Once this is most true that the wysest man lyuing may learne of Demosthenes how to benefite hymselfe and to doe good to hys Countrye and to mayntayne also the safety of it And a thing I haue to report the whych almost