This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. his public life and speeches. from the peace of philocrates (346 B.C.) to Chjeronea (338 B.C.) During the years of nominal peace from 346 B.c to 340 B.C., Philip carried on a diplomatic warfare, without ever coming to an open rupture. Larger horizons had, doubtless, already opened up to him ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. his public life and speeches. from the peace of philocrates (346 B.C.) to Chjeronea (338 B.C.) During the years of nominal peace from 346 B.c to 340 B.C., Philip carried on a diplomatic warfare, without ever coming to an open rupture. Larger horizons had, doubtless, already opened up to him outside Greece. He aspired to the leadership of the Hellenes in a war against Persia, but the temper of Athens stood in his way. Philip was not one who regarded moral forces as material obstacles which might rudely be set aside. Any attempt to treat Athens like Olynthus, and to violate the home and centre of Greek life, might arm against him a confederation of all the powers. He must if possible bring Athens to act with them, or at least not to act against him. Hence the terms of studied courtesy in which he addresses the Athenian people, his laboured apologies, his indignant disavowals of the very purpose on which he is engaged (all reminding us forcibly of the methods of Napoleon I.), his hints at enigmatic services which he has no intention of performing. Of those who gave credence and currency to these friendly professions, some were honest dupes. Isocrates, in 346 B.C., in the interval between the conclusion of the peace and the end of the Sacred War, speaks of ill-natured persons who pretended that Philip had designs against the freedom of Greece, and he is almost ashamed to notice the groundless suspicion (Philipp. 73). The destruction of Phocis was Philip's practical comment on these remarks. But the faith of Isocrates remained unshaken, and a letter he wrote to Philip, probably'in 342 B.c, is conceived in the old strain. Philip continued to work"
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