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ISBN-10: 1234927330
ISBN-13: 9781234927332
Edition: N/A
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... convocation, venerable from its religious antiquity, could be abused to satisfy the political antipathies of a single leading state. B.c.357. jn tne year 357 B c#j a second attempt was made Thebes7 DY Thebes to employ the authority of the Amphibians'6 ktyonic assembly as a means of crushing her neighThePho- bours the Phokians. The latter had been, from old kiam are . _ i condemned time, border-enemies of the Thebans, Loknans, and finedheaVlly Thessalians. Until the… battle of Leuktra, they had fought as allies of Sparta against Thebes, but had . submitted to Thebes after that battle, and had continued to be her allies, though less and less cordial, until the battle of Mantinea and the death of Epaminondas1. Since that time, the old antipathy appears to have been rekindled, especially on the part of Thebes. Irritated against the Phokians probably as having broken off from a sworn alliance, she determined to raise against them an accusation in the Amphiktyonic assembly. As to the substantive ground of accusation, we find different statements. According to one witness, they were accused of having cultivated some portion of the Kirrhaean plain, consecrated from of old to Apollo; according to another they were charged with an aggressive invasion of Bceotia; while according to a third, the war was caused by their having carried off Theano, a married Theban woman. Pausanias confesses that he cannot distinctly make out what was the allegation against them9. Assisted by the antipathy of the 1 Compare Xenoph. Hellen. vi. 5, 23, and vii. 5, 4. About the feud of the Thessalians and Phokians, seeHerodot. vii. 176, viii.27; /Eschines, De Fals. Leg. p. 289. c. 43--of the Lokrians and Phokians, Xenoph. Hellen. iii. 5, 3; Pausanias, iii. 9, 4. ' Diodor....