[363] _Supra_, p. 245. [364] _First Olynthiac_, §§ 25-26. [365] _Chersonese_, §§ 61-67. The recital of the present condition of Phocis is a simple but impressive piece of argument by description: ‘It was a terrible sight, Gentlemen, and a sad one; when we were lately on our way to Delphi we were compelled to see it all, houses in ruins, walls demolished, the country empty of men of military age; only a few poor women and little children and old men in pitiable state—words cannot describe the depth of the misery in which they are now sunk’ (_de Falsa Leg._, § 65). [366] Cf. _Third Olynthiac_, §§ 24-26. [367] Viz., on every meeting of the ecclesia at which legislation was possible. [368] _Timocrates_, §§ 139 _sqq._ [369] In particular _de Corona_, §§ 129-130, 258-262. Cf. _supra_, p. 164. [370] _de Corona_, §§ 261-262. [371] _Vide supra_, pp. 170, 177. [372] οὐ γάρ πως ἅμα πάντα θεοὶ δόσαν ἀνθρώποισι. [373] _de Sublimi_, ch. xxxiv. [374] _de Falsa Leg._, §§ 112-113, with Weil’s note. [375] § 90. [376] §§ 9, 196. Weil remarks truly, ‘Les orateurs ne se piquent pas d’être exacts: ils usent largement de l’hyperbole mensongère.’ [377] Mr. Pickard-Cambridge (_Demos._, p. 80) observes: ‘Men who are assembled in a crowd do not think.... The orator has often to use arguments which no logic can defend, and to employ methods of persuasion upon a crowd which he would be ashamed to use if he were dealing with a personal friend.’ This is partly true, but should be accepted with reservations. The arguments in the harangues of Demosthenes will generally bear the light, and the public speeches by distinguished statesmen of this country on the causes of the Great War have frequently appealed to the _higher_ nature of their audiences. [378] There is a pseudo-epilogue, §§ 126-159, devoted chiefly to the birth and life of Aeschines. Here the speech might have ended, but the orator reverts in § 160 to an examination and defence of his own political life. The real epilogue is contained in §§ 252-324. The disorder is undoubtedly due in part to the peculiar facts of the case, namely, that the issues of the trial were much wider than might have appeared. Demosthenes is not so much concerned to prove the legality of Ctesiphon’s decree as to offer an _apologia_ of his own political conduct during many years. [379] Quoted _supra_, p. 216. [380] A plausible answer. In Greece at the present day water-courses are used as roads, and the same is true of the south of Spain. At Malaga, a few years ago, the tram-line actually crossed the river-bed. [381] _Vide supra_, p. 237. [382] § 136. [383] § 167. [384] §§ 210 _sqq._ ‘A State’s character is reflected in its laws’ (νόμους ... ὑπείληφασι ... τρόπους τῆς πόλεως.). [385] _Vide supra_, p. 190. [386] _Ctes._, § 52. [387] _Vide supra_, pp. 168, 194, 223. [388] Cf. _supra_, p. 223. [389] We know from Dinarchus, _Aristogiton_, § 13, that this trial shortly preceded the affair of Harpalus.