PHILIP=[DEMOSTHENES] 12 Letter of Philip

In the summer of 340, as he was advancing toward Perinthus and Byzantium, Philip sent the Athenians a letter, which survives as speech 12 in the corpus of Demosthenes (Part Two, Philip and Athens, p. 80). When Philip composed the letter, he had already reached the Hellespont (§16). He does not mention Perinthus; either he had not yet arrived or he felt no need to mention it to the Athenians.