§ 9. The argument is, 'if Philip is not committing hostilities so long
as he keeps away from Attica, Diopeithes is not doing so, so long as he
keeps away from Macedonia, and only operates in Thrace.'
_drive the vessels_, &c. See Speech on the Peace, § 25 n.
§ 14. _passing the time_: i.e. until a convenient season for an attack
arrives.
_those who are on the spot_: i.e. in Thrace, and who had doubtless sent
messages to Athens. Others think that the words mean 'those who are
here from Thrace'.
_Etesian winds_. See First Philippic, § 31 n.
_infatuation_: i.e. hostility to Athens.
§ 16. _punish the settlers_: i.e. those who were sent with Diopeithes
and demanded admission to Cardia.
§ 18. _Chalcis_, in Euboea (see Introd.).
§ 21. _keep our hands ... revenues_: a reference to the distributions
of Festival-Money (see Third Olynthiac, with Introduction and notes).
_contributions of the allies_. This interpretation seems on the whole
better warranted than 'contributions promised to Diopeithes'.
§ 24. _I consent to any penalty_: lit. *'I assess my own penalty at
anything'--a metaphor from the practice of the law-courts, which
allowed a convicted prisoner to propose an alternative penalty to that
suggested by the prosecutor.
_Erythraeans_: Erythrae was on the coast of Asia Minor, opposite Chios.
§ 25. _benevolences_: the same word as was used of the forced
contributions levied by English kings.
§ 27. _surrendering_: i.e. to his soldiers, to be plundered (if the
phrase is meant to convey anything but a vague accusation).
§ 28. _wax-tablet_: i.e. a summons.
_so many ships_. The critics of Diopeithes must have proposed the
sending of a definite force to control him.
§ 29. _a dispatch-boat_: lit. 'the _Paralus_'. This ship, and the
_Salaminia_, were the two vessels regularly employed on public errands.
_spitefulness_: i.e. towards Diopeithes.
§ 30. _Chares_: see references in n. on Speech on Embassy, § 332.
_Aristophon_. The reference may be to his conduct as general in the
early days of the war with Philip about Amphipolis. His activity as a
statesman began as far back as 403, and he was one of the most
influential politicians in Athens from about 361 to 354.
§ 31. _losing something_: _sc_. a scapegoat whom you could punish.
§ 40. _Euthycrates_, &c. See Introd. to Olynthiacs.
§ 44. _wretched hamlets_ ([Greek: kak_on]): lit. 'evils' or 'miseries';
but the word is possibly corrupt. (The original reading may possibly
have been [Greek: kalyb_on].) According to the scholiast, Drongilum and
Cabyle are near Amphipolis and the Strymon; but others assign different
localities to them. Masteira is quite unknown.
§ 45. _pit of destruction_ ([Greek: barhathrh_o]). This was literally
the pit into which the bodies of condemned criminals were thrown at
Athens.
_silos_: underground store-houses for grain, such as were found in Ceos
not many years ago, and may still be in use.
§ 46. _irremediable_ ([Greek: an_ekeston]). The reading of two good
manuscripts [Greek: aneikaston] (otherwise only known as a late Greek
word) may be correct. If so, it may mean 'unparalleled', or
'inexplicable'.
§ 57. The meaning is, that by denouncing those who propose active
measures now, they are preparing the way in order to prosecute them so
soon as you find the war burdensome; whereas they should themselves be
prosecuted for letting things go as far as they have gone.
§ 59. _Oreus_. See Introd.
_Pheraeans_, in 344. See Introd. to Second Philippic; and cf. Third
Philippic, § 12.
_compromise_. Slavery seems to be ironically regarded as a compromise
between activity and quiescence.
§ 63. _robbed of at an earlier period_. The sense must either be this,
or else 'all that you have lost in open war '. In either case
emendation is required.
§ 70. _trierarch and choregus_. Demosthenes was choregus in 348, and
trierarch in 363, 359, and 357.
§ 74. _Timotheus_: in 358, when Athens liberated Euboea from the
Thebans. Cf. First Philippic, § 17, First Olynthiac, § 8. The effect of
Timotheus' speech was such that the expedition started within three
days. (Speech against Androtion, § 14.)
§ 75. _best counsel that he can_. The text is probably corrupt; but
this was probably the sense of the original.