Again, men of Athens , when I saw that
 Neoptolemus, the actor, enjoying safe conduct under cover of his profession, was
 doing his best to injure our city and was Philip’s agent and representative at
 Athens , I once more came forward
 and addressed you, not out of private animosity or love of informing, as indeed
 my subsequent conduct has proved. And I shall not in this case, as in the former one, find fault with those who
 spoke in defence of Neoptolemus, for not a man defended him, but with
 yourselves. For if it had been a tragedy in the theater of Dionysus that you
 were watching and not a debate on the very existence of your state, you could
 not have shown more partiality to him and more ill-will against me. Yet I suppose that by this time you have all observed that after visiting the
 enemy, in order, as he alleged, to collect sums owing to him there which he
 might spend on public services here, and after making copious use of the
 argument that it was too bad to arraign men who were transferring wealth from
 Macedonia to Athens , he secured a safe conduct owing to
 the peace, converted into cash all the real property that he held here, and has
 absconded to Philip. There, then, you have two of my warnings, bearing testimony to the value of my
 earlier speeches, and uttered by me honestly and in strict conformity with the
 facts. Thirdly, men of Athens—and when I have given just this one further
 instance, I will at once pass on to some topics that I have omitted—when we
 ambassadors returned from administering the oaths for the peace, at that time there were some who assured us that Thespiae and Plataea would be rebuilt, that Philip, if he gained the
 mastery, would protect the Phocians and break up Thebes into villages, and that you would retain Oropus and
 receive Euboea in exchange for
 Amphipolis . Led on by these
 false hopes and cajoleries, you abandoned the Phocians against your own
 interests and against justice and honor. But you will find that I neither took
 part in this deception, nor passed it over in silence, but spoke out boldly, as
 I am sure you remember, saying that I had neither knowledge nor expectation of
 such results and that all such talk was nonsense.