William Jackson Brodribb

Name: Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE
Author: William Jackson Brodribb

Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

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“Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE”, published in 1877, is a work by William Jackson Brodribb. It explores elements such as Locrians, Athens and Thebans.

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ Every man in Thebes whom money can buy, every man whom flattery can gain, has long ago been secured. But he is totally unable to prevail upon those who have withstood him from the beginning, and who are opposing him still. What, then, has brought Philip to Elateia? He hopes, by a military demonstration in your neighbourhood, and by bringing up his army, to raise the courage and confidence of his friends, and to strike terror into his enemies, so that they may be frightened or coerced into surrendering what hitherto they have been unwilling to concede. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ The danger is theirs before it is ours. Next, let all citizens of military age and all your cavalry march to Eleusis, and show yourselves to the world in arms, that the Thebans who are on your side may be as bold as their adversaries, and speak out in the cause of right, with the assurance that, if there is at Elateia a force at hand to support the party who have sold their country to Philip, your forces are no less at the disposal of those who would fight for freedom, and ready to succour them in case of attack. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ Do you take counsel for yourselves. You are here to pray for blessings to the gods, publicly and individually. Where will you find voice or heart or courage to offer such a prayer if you let these accursed Locrians of Amphissa remain unpunished?"
The appeal of Æschines produced an instantaneous effect. The excitement was prodigious; and the Council in a moment of fury passed a resolution that on the morrow all the population of Delphi were to assemble with spades and pickaxes, and sweep away from the sacred plain every trace of the impious tillage and cultivation. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ We know what it is for a regular and well-equipped army to have to march through an intricate and hostile country. The king of Macedon, encumbered as he was with spoil, was taken at a disadvantage, and if not actually defeated, he was at least worsted, lost his plunder, and was himself badly wounded. Thus the year 339 B.C. seemed one of good omen for Athens and for Greece. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ But the Greek army was without a general of any marked ability. Phocion, by far the best Athenian officer, was absent with the fleet in the Ægean. A commander of the first order—a man, for example, of the calibre of Epameinondas—might have turned the scale, and no doubt would have done so had there been a powerful contingent from Sparta and the Peloponnese. United Greece, it is probable, could even yet have crushed Philip. As it was, all may be said to have depended on Athens and Thebes, though a few other states furnished some soldiers. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ Again and again did the herald repeat the proclamation; our country's voice called out for a man to speak and save her; for the voice of the herald raised at the law's command should be regarded as the voice of our common country. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ A new sacred war was thus in effect begun six years after the disastrous termination of the previous war in 346 B.C. That had ended in the destruction of a member of the Greek community; this was to end in the ruin and fall of Greece. The danger was not at once perceived at Athens. We cannot wonder at this. Æschines' vindication of his countrymen at the Council might well seem spirited and patriotic. Athens, through him, had stood forward as the champion of the god of Delphi. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Demosthenes — CHÆRONEIA—FALL OF GREECE (1877)

“ Æschines, it may be from really corrupt motives, supported the vote. Accordingly Philip was elected general of the Amphictyonic army; and a request was forwarded to him that "he would march to the aid of Apollo and the Amphictyons, and not suffer the rights of the god to be invaded by the impious Locrians of Amphissa."
The die was now cast. The peril to Greece might possibly even yet have been warded off; but it was great and imminent. And Thebes and Athens, on whom all now depended, were still notoriously unreconciled. Philip, of course, instantly accepted the Council's invitation. ”

William Jackson Brodribb

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