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retain the same reading, transposing the words nela-as and v^ias vari- 

 ously in accordance with different manuscripts, none of which are of 

 the highest authority. The last words are interpreted, whatever order 

 is followed, ivho persuaded you to abandon the Phocians and Ther- 

 mopylae ? There is no great diflSculty in applying this to the inaction 

 of the Athenians at the time of the ratification of their treaty with 

 Philip in 346 B. C, when Philip was marching upon their friends, the 

 Phocians. Demosthenes had just referred (§ 30) to his own vigorous 

 attempts to rouse the Athenians to action at that time : — ■n-povXeyov 

 Koi 8i{ijLapTvpovp,r]v Ka\ ovk e'lav Trpoeadai HvXas ovbe ^axkas, — a passage 

 to which the corruption of § 30 in the inferior MSS. is perhaps due. 



But in the passage from § 35 (quoted above) the word i/nSf is 

 omitted in the best two MSS. (2. and Aug. 1) ; and in 2,, whose 

 single authority ought to be above appeal in such a case, we have 

 7roii7cras substituted for v/ixas, the order being t'is 6 ^(OKeas rreiaas koi 

 UvXas iroifja-ai npoecrdai. In 2. we have also €navap.ifj.vf](rKe(T6ai for 

 fTravap.vTjcrai. In Voemel's larger edition of the public orations of 

 Demosthenes {Demosthenis Contiones, Graece et Latine, Halis Saxo- 

 num, 1857) we find both these corrections adopted from 2.; but 

 the translation shows that the editor still retains the interpretation 

 of the old text, considering the rejected vp.as as still understood 

 with both participles. He translates : unusquisqiie vestrum, licet probe 

 gnarus, tamen etiam revocet velim siJn in memoriam, quis siiaserit ut 

 Phocenses, quis fecerit ut Pylas proieceritis. Westermann in his school 

 edition adopts the same text, but has no note to show that he suspects 

 the common interpretation. It would hardly have occurred to any on« 

 who was not familiar with the ordinary reading and interpretation to 

 translate rt's 6 ^wKe'a? Trft'o-as <a\ Ili^Xas noiri(ras irpoecrBai in any other 

 way than, tvho was it who persuaded the Phocians and caused them to 

 abandon Tliermopylae. A sUght reference to the circumstances of 

 Philip's passage of Thermopylae will show that nothing else could 

 have been meant by Demosthenes. The orator tells us (Fals. Leg. 

 § 58, p. 359) that, when the embassy reached Athens, Philip had 

 already presented himself at Thermopylae and was making promsies 

 to the Phocians who held the pass, in the hope of being admitted 

 without opposition. The Phocians put no faith in Philip's promises, 

 but sent to Athens for advice. Their ambassadors were present in the 

 very Athenian assembly in which Aeschines made his pretended dis- 

 closures of Philip's real intentions towards the Phocians, and they 



