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Updated: May 7, 2025
Philip's terms in regard to Halonnesus were refused, but the Athenian claim to the island was not withdrawn. Philip spent the greater part of 342 and 341 in Thrace, mainly in the valley of the Hebrus, where he endured very great hardships through the winter, and founded colonies of Macedonian soldiers, the chief of these being Philippopolis and Cabyle.
About the same time a controversy, begun in the previous year, in regard to Halonnesus, was renewed. This island had belonged to Athens, but had been occupied by pirates. He also offered to discuss a treaty for the settlement of private disputes between Athenians and Macedonians, and to concert measures with Athens for clearing the Aegean of pirates.
For the time has come to ask you this, Aeschines, and to dismiss everything else. Amphipolis, Pydna, Poteidaea, Halonnesus all are blotted from my memory. But of this too I say nothing at present. Was it fit that one of the Hellenes should arise to prevent it, or not? But if it was right that one should arise to prevent it, for whom could the task be more fitting than for the people of Athens?
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