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 FESTIVAL OF PHILIP. 365 Macedonia, with unbounded hospitality, and prizes of every sort, for matches and exhibitions, both gymnastic and poetical. His donations were munificent, as well to the Grecian and Macedonian officers who had served him, as to the eminent poets or actors who pleased his taste. Satyrus the comic actor, refusing al! presents for himself, asked and obtained from him the release of two young women taken in Olynthus, daughters of his friend the Pydncean Apollophanes, who had been one of the persons con- cerned in the death of Philip's elder brother Alexander. Satyrus announced his intention not only of ensuring freedom to these young women, but likewise of providing portions for them and giving them out in marriage. 1 Philip also found at Olynthus his two exile half-brothers, who had served as pretexts for the war and put both of them to death. 2 It has already been stated that Athens had sent to Olynthus more, than one considerable reinforcement, especially during the last year of the war. Though we are ignorant what these expe- ditions achieved, or even how much was their exact force, we find reason to suspect that they were employed by Chares and other generals to no good purpose. The opponents of Chares accused him, as well as Deiares and other mercenary chiefs, of having wasted the naval and military strength of the city in idle enter- prises or rapacious extortions upon the traders of the JEgean. They summed up 1500 talents and 150 triremes thus lost to Ath- ens, besides wide-spread odium incurred among the islanders by the unjust contributions levied upon them to enrich the general. 3 In addition to this disgraceful ill-success, came now the fearful ruin in Olynthus and Chalkidike, and the great aggrandizement of their enemy Philip. The loss of Olynthus, with the miserable captivity of its population, would have been sufficient of themselves to excite powerful sentiment among the Athenians. But there was a farther circumstance which came yet more home to their feelings. Many of their own citizens were serving in Olynthus as an auxiliary garrison, and had now become captives along with the rest. 4 No such calamity as this had befallen Athens for a cen 1 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 384-401; Dicdor. xvi. 55. 2 Justin, viii. 3. 81*
 * Machines, Fals. Leg. p. 37. c. 24. * JEschines, Fals. Leg. p. 30.