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98 Now not a word was said about making the journey along the Thracian coast;The journey which Demosthenes, in the speech for the prosecution, had said ought to have been made in order to forestall Philip’s conquests there. for the decree did not prescribe any such journey, but simply that we should receive the oaths and transact certain other business, nor could we have accomplished anything if we had gone, for Cersobleptes’ fate had already been decided, as you heard a moment ago; for there is not a word of truth in what he has said, but, at a loss for any true charge, he resorts to these prodigious lies.

99 On the journey two attendants followed him, carrying sacks of bedding; in one of the sacks, he assured us, was a talent of silver; so that his colleagues were reminded of those old nicknames of his; for the boys used to call him Batalos, he was so vulgar and obscene then when he was growing out of boyhood and was bringing against his guardians big lawsuits of ten talents each, he was called Argas;Batalos has been thought to mean stammerer, or perhaps mamma-baby (see Aeschin. 1.126 and 131), but that explanation would hardly fit this passage. We really have no knowledge as to the derivation of the word. Argas was the name of a venomous snake. now, grown to manhood, he has got also the name that we apply to rascals in general, Blackmailer.

100 and he was going with the intention of ransoming the captives,The Athenian citizens who had been captured at the fall of Olynthus, and were now in slavery in Macedonia. as he said, and as he has just now told you, although he knew that at no time during the war had Philip exacted ransom-money for any Athenian, and although he had heard all Philip’s friends say that he would release the rest also, if peace should be made. And he was carrying one talent for many unfortunates—sufficient ransom for one man, and not a very well to-do man at that!

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