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Charidemus1 set out to visit the Persian King, wishing to
do you some practical service apart from mere talking, and anxious at his own
peril to win safety for you and every Greek. Demosthenes went round the market
making speeches and associating himself with the project. So completely did
fortune wreck this plan that it turned out in just the opposite way to what was
expected.
1 Charidemus of Oreos in Euboea was made an Athenian citizen for his services as a soldier （Dem. 23.151）. He went to Persia in 335 B.C., having been banished from Athens on the orders of Alexander （Arr. 1.10.6）, and after being well received at first by Darius, fell under suspicion two years later and was executed （Dio. Sic. 17.30）.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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