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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

nowe called Modon an hauen town in Morea Great is the value of order and foresight to gouerne things well Disorder and want of foreknowledge doe cause confusion * The maner was that if any man being sessed refused to pay that he was sessed at an other offering to chaunge goods with him might do it and take that in hande that he should Tyme taryeth no man. He meaneth king Philip. Pleasant talke vnnecessarie when plaine speach is most needefull Foresight in Magistrates most requisite Lingring is then noysome when necessitie requires haste As Switzers fight fondly so doe many people and nations deale with their enimies vnwisely Cherronesus now Phan●● a port towne in Morea God sendeth oft tymes wicked tormentors to securge and annoy others The carefulnesse of the wicked ought to quicken the Godly to looke about them All passages are open to the stowte and valiant souldiour ▪ As good neuer a whit as neuer the better Daungerous to slaunder souldiours that haue serued and worst of all to condemne them vpon the false report of others Gouernors to be personall and carefull vewers of things to be done Flying tales and flattering newes doe neuer good to any state A short gathering of all that hath bene sayd 1. King Philip enimye to Athens 2. A spoyler of their countrie 3. Prowde and iniurious 4. And their trustie friends by him made trecherous and vntrue persons Best for a man to trust to himselfe Better to fight with the enimie at his owne home than for him to fight with vs in our owne countrie Demosthenes neuer preferred priuate welfare before common weale Words are vnfit weapons to withstande armour Such studie such fruite ▪ Profite to be preferred vnto pleasure The enimie being mightie he is to be feared greatly Demosthenes consideration vpon king Philips doings Pyle certaine narow gates or strayts for passages King Philip findeth the Athenians vnspotted for corruption Thebanes corrupted by giftes and faire promises Great princes seeke amitie of meaner states for their owne welfare and to serue their seuerall turnes the better Athenians neuer corrupted with any fayre promise or offered hope to lose their countries libertie Athenians worthinesse se● forth by example of their elders Herodotus reporter of these matters In the warres against the Persians the Argeyans would not meddle but the Thebanes toke part with the Persians An aunswere to an obiection proouing that king Philip neyther for iustise sake nor yet by enforcement was friend to the Thebanes with certaine mocking of those nations The lapping vp of all these matters Wise men being wronged are to be feared of the wrong doers Euill men care for nothing but for the present time onely Part of an oration rehersed here by Demosthenes whereby he did will the Messenians and the Argians not to be in league with king Philip. Olynthians abused by King Philips counterfeyte dealings Thessalians deceyued ●y king Philip vnder colour of friendship offered Mistrustfulnes the chiefest safegarde that may be against the practises of Tyraunts He meaneth bicause he writ himselfe king Carelesse men are euer most nigh their owne harme Ambassadors seeking theyr owne priuate welfare are most daungerous ministers and therefore to be narowly looked vnto Daungerous to graūt an entry to the enimie Good men maliced for speaking truth Fayre promises makes fooles faine Pickethankes seeke by discrediting others to benefite themselues Good men in greater daunger for saying the truth than euill men are for dooing naughtily Pyla were certaine straytes to stop passages where the town Thermopylae stoode Peloponesus now Morea One inconuenience suffered many mischiefs do follow after Then is for●earing to speake most daungerous when necessitie requireth speach Flatterers and slaunderers the very authors of all mischiefe and euill hap that may be Slaunderers Bolde speech vpō good cause deserues fauor Free speaking forbidden bringeth daunger to the state Many frame their talke according to the humor of others Through diligence and care those thinges may be redressed that weare by slouth and negligence forlorne He that doth wrong giueth cause of warre not they that seeke the redresse of wrong Councellours speaking for the best doe oftentymes beare the greatest blame Peace better than warre if a man may be sure of it Not king Philips words but his deedes are to be marked and looked vpon King Philip practised stafford law with the people of Athens Olynthians Phoceyans being euill vsed fors●oke their countrie by consent neuer to returne and builded Massilia in Prouance Thebe now Thi●a in Beotia Phere nowe Ceramidi a towne of Attica betwene Megara and Thebes Oreteynes Sleight and guile fitter for king Philip than euennesse and plaine dealing King Philips deedes rather to be marked than his wordes Diophites generall of the Athenians armie Cherronesus now Phanar Serrium and Doriscum townes in Thracia and in this second towne Xerxes armie was found iust 1000000. men Whatsoeuer swarue● an ynch from ius●tice the same tendeth streight to iniustice An vnderm●ner and a fetching practiser worse than an open and plain sworne enimie The intent makes the offence when all things are prepared although the execution do not follow Preuention necessary when purposed mischiefe is foreknowne Hellespontus Megaris Euboia Peloponesus Cherronesus now Phanar Bizance nowe Cōstantinople A●l Greceland in daunger of king Philip. The sodaine rysing and encreased might of king Philip. King Philips libertie to doe what he ly●● without step or let hath beene the cause of all the warres in Grece Grecians ruled by the Athenians 7● yeares Grecians ruled by the Lacededemonians 29. yeares Grecians ruled by the Thebanes after the battail at Leuctra Such as passed the boundes of moderation among the Grecians heretofore were restrayned of their course brought perforce to liue in order The vnmeasurable harmes and excess●ue wrongs done by king Philip in short tyme Olynthus Methona Apollonia 32. townes in Thracia Countryes spoyled by king Philip. Phoceyans Thessalians Quatuorviratus Euboians A prowde bragging maner of writing vsed by king Phillip Hellespontus Ambracia now Larta Elis in Morea now Beluedere Megaris now Megr● All the worlde euer little to glut king Philips gredie and bottomlesse ambition Fondly weare the Grecians carelesse and vnquiet among themselues when the enimie was so busie and stirring abroade * King Philip he meaneth Euery man sekes to saue one for a time while others miscary whereas none haue any care of the whole state or country * An apt similitude deriued from the bodie to the mind declaring howe carelesse the Greciās were Wrongs done by straungers more daungerous than harmes done by naturall Citizens or home borne men King Philip a barbarous prince mere straunger to the Grecians King Philip contumelius and dispitefu●l of his tongue * Pythia certaine games made yerely in the honour of Apollo for killing the mighty and venimous serpent Pytho Oracle of Apollo Amphictyones an assembly of states to come to gither hauing the name of Amphiction who caused the princes of Grece to be summoned to meete at

O Athenians that none of you doth consider nor that any of you is an angred when ye sée that the first intent and beginning of these warres agaynst king Philip was onely to be reuenged of him and to do him hurt but the ende of it is to defende our selues that we take no hurt And most certaine it is that he will neuer rest and holde himselfe contented till some begin to bearde him and to withstande his enterprises And shall we than tary and do nothing till that time What do you thinke that all shall go well with you bicause you haue made out a fewe emptie and euill appoynted Galleys and haue an hope in one ioly fellow or other that shall haue charge of affayres when you set forth shall we not embarke our selues and we that coulde neuer be brought to it before shall we not martche forwardes nowe at the length with some companye of our owne countrimen shall we not put ouer a nauye into his Countrie But some peraduenture will aske the question and where I pray you sir shall we put a lande The verie warre it selfe O Athenians shall shew and discouer vs the crackes breaches of his state so we would once go in hande with the matter But and we do nothing but sit still at home hearing our Orators scold one with another and eche accusing blaming other we shall neuer do no neuer shall we do any thing well as we ought are bound to do And yet assure your selues of this whether soeuer you listed to send forth any power of our men though the whole armie be not there altogither there will God himselfe good fortune fight in our quarel Wheras if you should send but a Capitain forth with a single sleuelesse decrée with great threates to your enimies and a few comfortable words from this consistorie to put men in hope withall you shall be sure on the other side you shall neuer doe any good at all For why our enimies shal laugh vs to scorne our friends shall be vtterly discouraged thinke themselues vndone when they shall sée this masking and counterfeite preparations For it is not possible neither can it be that any one man alone shal be able to do al that for you that you would haue done Well may he promise and auouch any thing and accuse this man or that man and that is euen it that hath brought all to naught For as long as things be thus handled that a Lieuetenant of a sight of forreyne wretched and vnappoynted souldiours if he chaunce to take the foyle in the fielde by and of that which he shall doe there you haue one here at home shall forthwith be readie to bring a lying tale of him and you as soone as you haue heard the matter howsoeuer it be will be as readie to make a decrée thereafter What hope I pray you then is there left of such a gouernement when or how will you redeeme such a mischiefe Marie euen then and not before all things will be well when you O Athenians shall be disposed to go on warfare your selues and be liuely witnesses of all those thinges that the Capitaines doe and at your returne home make your selues iudges of all their accountes For it is not onely conuenient for you to heare howe your owne matters haue passed but also that you be personally vewers and present séers of the thinges done But now things be so shamefully handled that there is neuer a Capitaine but hath béene arreigned vpon his life twise or thrise before you where as not one of them hath béene so hardie as once to aduenture the same in fighting like a man against the enimie but had rather choose the Gallowes as it séemeth like an errant théefe and rouer than like an honest man to spill his blood in open fielde vpon his enimie In déede it beséemeth well naughtie packes and wicked doers to die by order of iustice but a valiaunt Souldiour and couragious Capitaine it becommeth to die in the field vpon his enimie In this meane while there be some of you that doe nothing but go vp and downe and prattle newes scant worth a straw one that king Philip through the helpe and ayde of the Lacedemonians practises the destruction of Thebes and mindeth the dissolution of frée Cities and commune weales an other sort of you telles how king Philip hath sent his Ambassadors to the Persians others do babble how he fortifieth in Illiria And thus we go vp and down euery man deuising one tittle tattle or other as his owne vaine heade imagines I for my part O Athenians doe thus thinke of king Philip in good sooth that he is dronken and assotted with the greatnesse of his owne dooings and dreameth much in his fantasie of suche like thinges both bicause he séeth suche a dezert and wildernesse of men to withstande him and also bicause he is puffed vp with the pride and glorie of his owne prosperous doings And yet let no man be so mad to thinke that he goeth so about his matters and taketh such wayes as euerie foole amongst vs shall perceyue what he doth or intendeth to doe And what verier fooles can there bée in all the worlde than these tale cariers and newes coyners be Albeit let vs giue ouer these toyes and learne our selues to vnderstand that this man is our enimie that he spoyleth vs of our goodes and hath done vs wronge this great while and whatsoeuer others would haue done for vs the same as it appeareth he hath altered and turned cleane agaynst vs And than our remaine shall bée to trust to our selues and to aduaunce our owne power to make resistaunce against him But if so be it that we will not make ouer to fight with him there peraduenture he will driue vs to fight with him here at home whether we will or no. Wherefore if we can thinke vpon these things which I haue sayde I doubt not but we shall aduise our selues well inough and be well ridde of the tattle of a sight of fooles neyther néede wée to bethinke vs any more of the matter howe wée shall doe hereafter Once this is certaine vnlesse wée plye our matters otherwyse than wée haue done hytherto and euery man be readye to doe his part we shall bée sure to doe but yll fauouredly And I for my part was neuer of that minde to speake to the pleasing of anye one man further then I was well assured the same shoulde bée profitable for euery man And namely at thys time I haue not shroonke to vtter franckly and plainly my minde of whatsoeuer thinge I thought was for your profite and commoditie And woulde God that lyke as I am well assured that it is for your benifite to heare good thinges so I might perceyue it profitable to him that telles you and warnes you for the best lyke a most faythfull and friendly Councellour then shoulde I