Philip’s agents

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Often appears with: guest-friendship vs friendship · counsel and advisers to rulers · conspiracy and assassination · alexander · aeschines as hireling

Usually: argument (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)

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“Nay, I call you the hireling, formerly of Philip, and now of Alexander, and so do all who are present.” Demosthenes, The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 · wit

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 primary

Demosthenes · c. 341 BCE (delivered early in spring; speech contents refer to campaign of 342–341)
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He concludes this line by blaming Aeschines for past crimes and ridicules Aeschines’ claims of “friendship” with rulers, insisting Aeschines was a hireling of Philip and then Alexander.

here, those who resist your will, that you must thank for the fact that you live and draw your pay; for, left to yourselves, you would long ago have perished. {50} There is still much that I might say about the transactions of that time, but I think that even what I have said is more than enough. The blame rests with Aeschines, who has drenched me with the stale dregs[n] of his own villainy and crime, from which I w…