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 420 HISTOKY OF GREECE. Athenian envoys were negotiating or intriguing witii Philip id Pella, Phokian envoys were there also, trying to establish some understanding with Philip, through Lacedaemonian and Athenian support. Both Philip and -ZEschines probably amused them with favorable promises. And though, when the oaths were at last ad- ministered to Philip at PheraB. the Phokians were formally pro- nounced to be excluded, still the fair words of JEschines, and his assurances of Philip's good intentions towards them, were not discontinued. While Philip marched straight from Pherse to Thermopylae, and while the Athenian envoys returned to Athens, Phokian deputies visited Athens also, to learn the last determination of the Athenian people, upon which their own destiny turned. Though Philip, on reaching the neighborhood of Thermopylae, summoned the Phokian leader, Phalaskus to surrender the pass, and offered him terms, Phalaekus would make no reply until his deputies re turned to Athens. 1 These deputies, present at the public assem- bly of the 16th Skirrophorion, heard the same fallacious assurances as before respecting Philip's designs, repeated by Philokrates and -ZEschines with unabated impudence, and still accepted by the people. But they also heard, in the very same assembly, the de- cree proposed by Philokrates and adopted, that unless the Pho- kians restored the Delphian temple forthwith to the Amphiktyons, the Athenian people would compel them to do so by armed force. If the Phokians still cherished hopes, this conditional declaration of war, from a city which still continued by name to be their ally, opened their eyes, and satisfied them that no hope was left except to make the best terms they could with Philip. 2 To defend 1 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 359. f/Kopev 6e 6evj>o uTd r^f npeaj3siaf r?}f Im roiif op/cove rp'tTT) tirl 6eKa TOV 2Kippoopitivo<; fir]vb<;, Kal irapfjv 6 $i.Anr- Ti-of v Hv^aif ?/oiv oiiroi (^Eschines, Philo- krates, etc.) Kal ri t}iTi(j>t(la$EVf4ele, lKifj.eA.ee eidevai. eirvdovro eit rf/f iKK^rjaiaf Kal TO re ipfjifffj.a roir' i?*aflov rb rov 4>tAofp<;- roi ;, Ka,l T?JV uTrayyehiav r/trvdovTo TTJV TOVTOV Kal -f vnoa^caetf arc) iravTae Toiif rpairovf U.KU/.OVTO. JEschines (Fals. Leg. p. 45. c. ^1) touches upon the statements made by Demosthenes respecting the CH^Qy of Phcvloekus at Athens, jind the effect
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