such you ought to think of it: and you should show your abhorrence of
those who have sold themselves to Philip by beating them to death. For it
is impossible, utterly impossible, to master your enemies outside the
city, before you punish your enemies in the city itself. {62} Whence comes
it, think you, that he is insulting us now (for his conduct seems to me to
be nothing less than this), and that while he at least deceives all other
peoples by doing them favours, he is using threats against you without
more ado? For instance, he enticed the Thessalians by large gifts into
their present servitude; and words cannot describe how greatly he deceived
the Olynthians at first by the gift of Poteidaea and much beside. {63} At
this moment he is alluring the Thebans, by delivering up Boeotia to them,
and ridding them of a long and arduous campaign. Each of these peoples has
first reaped some advantage, before falling into those calamities which
some of them have already suffered, as all the world knows, and some are
destined to suffer whenever their time comes. But as for yourselves, to
pass over all that you have been robbed of at an earlier period,[n] what
deception, what robbery have been practised upon you in the very act of
making the Peace! {64} Have not the Phocians, and Thermopylae, and the
Thracian seaboard--Doriscus, Serrhium, Cersobleptes himself--been taken
from you? Does not Philip at this moment occupy the city of the Cardians,
and avow it openly? Why is it then, that he behaves as he does to all
others, and so differently to you? Because yours is the one city in the
world where men are permitted to speak on behalf of the enemy without
fear; because here a man may take bribes, and still address you with
impunity, even when you have been robbed of your own. In Olynthus it was
only safe to take Philip's side when the people of Olynthus as a whole had
shared Philip's favours, and was enjoying the possession of Poteidaea.
{65} In Thessaly it was only safe to take Philip's side when the
Thessalian commons had shared Philip's favours; for he had expelled the
tyrants for them, and restored to them their Amphictyonic position. In