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 PHOXIANS AND KERSOBLEPIES. 397 cure to covet, and which it most behooved Athens to ensure against him. The assembly, by its recent vote, had struck out the special exclusion of the Phokians proposed by Philokrates, thus by in> plication admitting them as allies along with the rest. They were in truth allies of old standing and valuable ; they had probably envoys present in Athens, but no deputies sitting in the synod. Nor had Kersobleptes any such deputy in that body ; but a citizen of Lampsakus, named Kritobulus, claimed on this occasion to act for him, and to take the oaths in his name. As to the manner of dealing with Kersobleptes, JEschines tells us two stories (one in the earlier oration, the other in the later) quite different from each other ; and agreeing only in this that in both Demosthenes is described as one of the presiding magis- trates of the public assembly, as having done all that he could to prevent the envoy of Kersobleptes from being admitted to take the oaths as an ally of Athens. Amidst such discrepancies, to state in detail what passed is impossible. But it seems clear, both from JEschines (in his earliest speech) and Demosthenes, first, that the envoy from Kersobleptes, not having a seat in the confederate synod, but presenting himself and claiming to be sworn as an ally of Athens, found his claim disputed ; secondly, that upon this dispute arising, the question was submitted to the vote of the public assembly, who decided that Kersobleptes was an ally, and should be admitted to take the oath as such. 1 Antipater and Parmenio, on the part of Philip, did not refuse TOV 'E/i%7]aTrovTov u avva/ityorepa ovrot TreTrpci/cacw ala^puf Kal /car?" V/J.MV 1 Compare JEschines, Fals. Leg. p. 39. c. 26, with JEschincs cont. Kteti- phont. p. 64. c. 27. Franke (Proleg. ad Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 30, 31) has some severe com- ments on the discrepancy between the two statements. That the question was put, and affirmed by vote, to admit Kersobleptes appears from the statement of JEschincs in the speech De Fals. Leg. T<) ijjj)$t,a/Lt,a {iretjjijQiadi} hpTityiafievov Se TOV 6i]p.ov. Compare Dumosth. DC Fals. Leg. p. 398, and Demosthen. Philipp. iv. p. 133. Philip, in his letter some years afterwards to the Athenians, affirmed that Kersobleptes wished to be admitted to take the oaths, but was excluded by the Athenian generals, who declared him to be an enemy of Athens (Epist. Phil. ap. Demosth. p. 160). If it be true that the generals tried to exclud* him, their exclusion must have been overruled by the vote of the assembly VOL. xi 34