Ancient writers about Macedonia – Aeschines

 

For at a congress* of the Lacedaemonian allies and the other Greeks, in which Amyntas, the father of Philip, being entitled to a seat, was represented by a delegate whose vote was absolutely under his control, he joined the other Greeks in voting to help Athens to recover possession of Amphipolis. As proof of this I presented from the public records the resolution of the Greek congress and the names of those who voted.

*The “Congress of Sparta,” 371 b.c.

  

 Aeschines,On the Embassy,32  

Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 

Συμμαχίας γάρ Λακεδαιμονίων καί τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων συνελθούσης, εἷς ὢν τούτων Ἀμύντας ὁ Φιλίππου πατήρ καί πέμπων σύνεδρον καί τῆς καθ' αὑτόν ψήφου κύριος ὤν, ἐψηφίσατο Ἀμφίπολιν τήν Ἀθηναίων συνεξαιρεῖν μετά τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων Ἀθηναίοις. Καί τούτων τό κοινόν δόγμα τῶν Ἑλλήνων καί τούς ψηφισαμένους ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων γραμμάτων μάρτυρας παρεσχόμην.