Note that dishonest victory — MILTON’S MINOR POEMS.

6-8. that dishonest victory at Chæronea. The victory of Philip over the Greeks at Chæronea, B.C. 338, is called by the poet dishonest because obtained by means of intrigue and bribery. that old man eloquent [126] is the orator and rhetorician Isocrates, who, in his grief over the defeat of his countrymen, committed suicide.