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[18] For, as indications that it was on you my thoughts were centered and on no others, you may note many items of evidence; for instance, I did not go to a city in which I was likely to play an outstanding role myself,1 but to one where I knew our ancestors had gone when the Persian danger overtook them,2 and where I knew too there existed abundant goodwill toward yourselves.

1 He hints that he might have gone to some other city friendly to the Macedonians, where a welcome would have awaited him if he had renounced his allegiance to Athens.

2 The Athenians abandoned the city before the battle of Salamis in 480 B.C.

Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.

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