chance I say, even now--that it may improve. If, however, you sit idle,
with an interest that stops short at applause and acclamation, and retires
into the background when any action is required, I can imagine no oratory,
which, without action on your part, will be able to save your country.


FOOTNOTES

[1] See Third Philippic Sec.Sec. 59 sqq.

[2] See Introduction to First Philippic.

[3] [Greek: est_o d_e.]




THE THIRD PHILIPPIC (Or. IX)

[_Introduction_. The Third Philippic seems to have been delivered in the
late spring or early summer of 341 B. C., about two months after the
Speech on the Chersonese, which apparently had little positive result,
though it probably prevented the recall and prosecution of Diopeithes. The
immediate occasion of the Third Philippic was a request from the forces in
the Chersonese for supplies. The general situation is the same as at the
date of the last speech, but the danger to Byzantium is more pressing.
Demosthenes now takes the broad ground of Panhellenic policy, and formally
proposes to send envoys throughout Greece, to unite all the Greek states
against Philip, as well as to send immediate reinforcements and supplies
to the Chersonese.