Immediately after his victory, then, Philip waxed insolent for joy, and going forth in revel rout to see the bodies of the slain, and being in his cups, recited the beginning of the decree introduced by Demosthenes, dividing it into feet and marking off the time:—
Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania, thus moves;
but when he got sober and realized the magnitude of the struggle in which he had been involved, he shuddered at the power and the ability of the orator who had forced him to hazard his empire and his life in the brief span of a single day.
Edition :
Plutarch Lives VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 99), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1967 (first ed. 1919).
Notes :
Although Philip stresses the importance of Demosthenes here, the latter did not actually take part in the fight but fled out of fear.
