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Excerpt from Demosthenes on the Crown: With English Notes About seven months after, when the apprehensions of the citizens had been removed in consequence of the moderation and clemency of Philip, Ctesiphon, a political admirer of Demosthenes, brought in a bill before the council of Five Hundred, proposing that the services of the orator should be publicly recognised and particularly his large private contributions for the public use. The Bill was ap proved, and a decree came down to the popular Assembly declaring it to be the will of the Council and People of Athens that Demosthenes should be presented with a golden crown in requital of his public services, and that proclamation of the same should be made in the theatre, at the Great Dionysian Festival. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.