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Excerpt from The Two Orations on the Crown This occurred in the year 336, a few days before Philip's death, but the trial remained suspended for more than six years, and was not taken up until the year 330. The cause of the delay has not been explained. Perhaps the prosecutor waited for the most favorable time to bring the trial on, and Ctesiphon and his friends might naturally not be averse to delay. Be the reason what it might, nothing was done until after the battles of Issus and Arbela, when Alexander, having conquered the Persians, was preparing to advance to the Indus. The moment was judged favorable, and the cause began before a jury of five hundred dicasts, or jurors. 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.