seeing the multitude talking to each other about the last speech; but when at last silence was obtained, he began his speech as follows:— “I and my colleagues, men of Sparta, have been sent to1191 you by the common league of the Acarnanians; and as we have always shared in the same prospects as the Macedonians, we consider that this mission also is common to us and them. For just as on the field of war, owing to the superiority and magnitude of the Macedonian, force, our safety is involved in their