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 REVOLT OF CHIOS. 221 at the cost of the confederates of Athens, are characterized in strong terms by all the contemporary orators Demosthenes, uEschiaes, Isokrates, etc. The commander, having no means of paying his soldiers, was often compelled to obey their predatory impulses, and conduct them to the easiest place from whence money could be obtained; indeed, some of the commanders, especially Chares, were themselves not less ready than their sol. diers to profit by such depredations. 1 Hence the armaments sent out by Athens sometimes saw little of the enemy whom they were sent to combat, preferring the easier and more lucrative proceed- ing of levying contributions from friends, and of plundering the trading-vessels met with at sea. Nor was it practicable for Athens to prevent such misconduct, when her own citizens refused to serve personally, and when she employed foreigners, hired for the occa- sion, but seldom regularly paid. 2 The suffering, alarm, and aliena- tion arising from hence among the confederates, was not less mis- chievous than discreditable to Athens. We cannot doubt that complaints in abundance were raised in the confederate synod ; but they must have been unavailing, since the abuse continued until the period shortly preceding the battle of Cheroneia. Amidst such apparent dispositions on the part of Athens to ' Diodor. xv. 95. 2 Demosthenes, Philip, i. 46. s. 28. it; ov d' avra a#' avrti TU t-eviic& vp.lv arpaTeverai, rovf (pihovf viKg, Kal rovf avfifiuxovf, ol S 1 ex&pol [isi&vf TOV deovTOf yeyovaatv. Kal napaKvipavTa em rbv -?? Tro/lewf Tr67i.efj.ov, irpbf 'ApTa(3aov fi navTaxov fj.rMi.ov OIXETUI nTieovra' 6 6e arpaTijybf uKoZovdei' eiKo-ue ov jup EGTIV apxetv /j.}) Sidovra fiitr&ov. Ibid. p. 53. s. 51. *O?rot d' uv orpanyyov Kal iprj^i.o'fj.a KEVOV Kai rdf and TOV j37i/j.a.TOf ehTridaf EKTrfj.i}>TjTe, ovfiev vfj.lv rtiv deovruv yi-yverai, u%i' ol UEV kxPl narayeTiuaiv, ol 6e avfipaxoi Tedvaai TU SEEI roi)f TotovTODf aTrauroylovf. Ibid. p. 53. s. 53. NiJv J' etf rotii?' rjKet TU, irpu.Yfj.aTa alaxvvrj^^ OIOTE rw> a-fparijyuv iKaarof Si Kal rpl<; Kpiverai nap' 1 vfuv irepl davdrov, Trpof 61 rovf ;p9poi)f ovdelf oi}6' 7raf avriJv uyuviaao'&ai trepl fiavurov ToA.fj.p rbv T&V avdpairodiaTuv Kal huTrofivrtiv -Qavarov ^aA/lov alpovvrai, TOV KOVTOf. Compare Olynthiac ii. p. 26. s. 28 ; Do Chersoneso, p. 95. s. 24-27, cont Aristokrat. p. 639. s. 69; De Republ. Ordinand. -repl ZwraS-euf, p. 167. a 7. Also ^Eschines de Fals. Legat. p. 264. c. 24 ; Isokrates, De Pace, s. 57 160. 19*