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 352 HISTORY OF GREECE. various Greeks thus received their recompense for servicco ren dered to Philip, yet Demosthenes affirms that Eu thykrates and Lasthenes, the traitors who had sold Olynthus, were uot among the number ; or at least that, not long afterwards, they were dis- missed with dishonor and contempt. 1 In this Olynthian war, ruinous to the Chalkidic Greeks, ter- rific to all other Greeks, and doubling the power of Philip, Athens too must have incurred a serious amount of expense. "We find it stated loosely, that in her entire war against Philip, from the time of his capture of Amphipolis in 358357 B. c. down to the peace of 346 B. c. or shortly afterwards, she had expended not less than fifteen hundred talents. 2 On those compu- tations no great stress is to be laid ; but we may well believe thai her outlay was considerable. In spite of all reluctance, she was obliged to do something ; what she did was both too lit' /e, and too intermittent, done behind time so as to produce no satisfactory result ; but nevertheless, the aggregate cost, in a series of years, was a large one. During the latter portion of the Olynthian war, as far as we can judge, she really seems to have made efforts, though she had done little in the beginning. We may presume that the cost must have been defrayed, in part at least, by a direct property-tax ; for the condemnation of Apollodorus put an end to the proposition of taking from the Theoric Fund. 3 Means calls some Olynthian witnesses to prove his assertion ; but their testimony is not given at length. 1 Demosth. De Chersones. p. 99. The existence of these Olynthian trai tors, sold to Philip, proves that he could not have needed the aid of the Stageirite philosopher Aristotle to indicate to him who were the richest Olynthian citizens, at the time when the prisoners were put up for sale as slaves. The Athenian Demoehares, about thirty years afterwards, in his viru lent speech against the philosophers, alleged that Aristotle had rendered this lisgraceful service to Philip (Aristokles ap. Eusebium, Prsep. Ev. p. 792) Wesseling (ad Diodor. xvi. 53) refutes the charge by saying that Aristotle was at that time, along with Hermeias, at Atarneus ; a refutation not very conclusive, which I am glad to be able to strengthen. tions the same amount of public money as having been wasted f oiidi -v deoi even in the early part of the Olynthiac war and before the Eubrcan war As evidences of actual amount, such statements are of no value. fine imposed upon Apollodorus, Eubulus moved and carried a law, enacting
 * JEschines, Fals. Leg. p. 37. C.-24. Demosthenes (Olynth iii. p. 36) men-
 * Flpian, in his Commentary on the first Olynthiac, tells us that after the