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 366 HISTORY OF GREECE. tury pasl, since the defeat of Tolmides at Koroneia in Boeotis, The whole Athenian people, and especially the relations of the captives, were full of agitation and anxiety, increased by alarming news from other quarters. The conquest threatened the security of all the Athenian possessions in Lemnos, Imbros, and the Cher- Bonese. This last peninsula, especially, was altogether unpro- tected against Philip, who was even reported to be on his march thither ; insomuch that the Athenian settlers within it began to forsake their properties and transfer their families to Athens. Amidst the grief and apprehension which disturbed the Athenian mind, many special assemblies were held to discuss suitable reme- dies. What was done, we are not exactly informed. But it seems that no one knew where the general Chares, with his armament, was ; so that it became necessary even for his friends in the as- sembly to echo the strong expressions of displeasure among the people, and to send a light vessel immediately in search of him. 1 The gravity of the crisis forced even Eubulus and others among the statesmen hitherto languid in the war, to hold a more energet- ic language than before against Philip. Denouncing him now as the common enemy of Greece, 9 they proposed missions into Pe- loponnesus and elsewhere for the purpose of animating the Gre- cian states into confederacy against him. JEschines assisted stren- uously in procuring the adoption of this proposition, and was him- elf named as one of the envoys into Peloponnesus. 3 This able orator, immortalized as the rival of Demosthenes, has come before us hitherto only as a soldier in various Athenian ex- peditions to Phlius in Peloponnesus (368) to the battle of Jfantineia (362) and to Euboea under Phokion (349 B. c.) ; in which last he had earned the favorable notice of the general, and had been sent to Athens with the news of the victory at Tamynae. JEschines was about six years older than Demosthe- nes, but born in a much humbler and poorer station. His father Atrometus taught to boys the elements of letters ; his mother 1 ^Eschines, Fals. Leg. p. 37. , nal Kara ruv raifiuv ufivvef ^ ftrjv u.iro'b.ul.tvai ftfXUrtO uv flow- , etc. 3 Demosth, Fals Log. p. 438, 439.
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