# περὶ τῶν πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον συνθηκῶν 8

Demosthenes, περὶ τῶν πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον συνθηκῶν, Section 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/demosthenes/text-62/8

ἔπειτα καὶ ἐπιτάττει ἡ συνθήκη εὐθὺς ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐλευθέρους εἶναι καὶ αὐτονόμους τοὺς Ἕλληνας. διὸ καὶ πῶς οὐχ ὑπεράτοπον, ἡγεῖσθαι μὲν τῶν συνθηκῶν τὸ αὐτονόμους εἶναι καὶ ἐλευθέρους, τὸν δʼ εἰς δουλείαν ἀγαγόντα μὴ οἴεσθαι τἀναντία ταῖς κοιναῖς ὁμολογίαις διαπεπρᾶχθαι; οὐκοῦν ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν ἡμῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, εἴπερ ταῖς συνθήκαις καὶ τοῖς ὅρκοις ἐμμενοῦμεν καὶ τὰ δίκαια ποιήσομεν, ἐφʼ ἃ ὑμᾶς παρακαλοῦσι, καθάπερ ἄρτι εἶπον, λαβοῦσι τὰ ὅπλα στρατεύεσθαι ἐπὶ τοὺς παραβεβηκότας μετὰ τῶν βουλομένων.

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Demosthenes, περὶ τῶν πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον συνθηκῶν, ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0014.tlg017.local001/.