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.
THE THIRD PHILIPPIC
§ 2. actively at work: the reference is to Diopeithes (see Speech on Chersonese, § 57).
§§ 4, 5. Passages are repeated from the Speech on the Chersonese, § 4, and First Philippic, § 2.
§ 8. not to defraud us: i.e. by making statements which he is not prepared to act upon.