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PREFACE
The present volume forms the secod and concluding
part of an edition of the Eight Philippie Orations of
Demosthenes, the first part of which was pablished
in 1897.
volume were the four preceding the Peace of Philo-
eates, namely the Fird Philiypie and the Thre
OlyathiacL, Those ineluded in the present volume
are the remaining four, namely the Speech On the
Peae, the Second Philiypic, the Speech Os the
Cherosens, and the Thind Philippic.
The Speeches ineluded in the former
The Introduetion takes up the thread of the
historical narrative at the point at which it was
dropped in the lntroduetion to the former volume.
It operns with sotne aceotunt of the events between
the Fall of Olynthus and the Peace of Philocrates.
It also inelades an analysis of the four Speeclhes
bere edited, together with an outline of historical
eventa which is brotught down to the death of
Dersosthenes, This is followed by a chapter on the
Tateal Criticims of the Thind Philippie, in which a
conseeutive acoount of the general corse of modern
eritieisn on that problem is given for the fist time
in any ork published in England. I have added a
list of the principal dates in the lifc and times of