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 DISTRESS OF THE PHOKIANS. 42 < agamst sacrilege, went far beyond the literal terms in active cruelty. That the Fhokians were stripped and slain, 1 that children were torn from their parents, wives from their husbands, and the images of the gods from their temples, that Philip took for himself the lion's share of the plunder and movable property, all these are facts naturally to be expected, as incidental to the violent measure of breaking up the cities and scattering the in- habitants. Of those, however, who had taken known part in the spoliation of the temple, the greater number went into exile with Phalaekus ; and not they alone, but even all such of the moderate and meritorious citizens as could find means to emigrate. 2 Many of them obtained shelter at Athens. The poorer Phokians re- mained at home by necessity. But such was the destruction in- flicted by the conquerors, that even two or three years afterwards, when Demosthenes and other Athenian envoys passed through the country in their way to the Amphiktyonic meeting at Delphi, they saw nothing but evidences of misery ; old men, women and little children, without adults, ruined houses, impoverished villa- ges, half-cultivated fields. 3 Well might Demosthenes say that events more terrific and momentous had never occurred in the 1 Justin, viii. 5. " Vieti igitur necessitate, pacta salute se dediderunt. Scd pactio ejus fidei fuit, cujus antea fuerat deprecati belli promissio. Igi- tur cseduntur passim rapiunturque : non liberi parentibus, non conjuge* maritis, non deorum simulacra templis suis relinquuntur. Unum tantun. miseris solatium fuit, quod cum Philippus portione prsedae socios fraudassei aihil rerum suarum apud inimicos viderunt." Compare Demosthen. Fals. Leg. p. 366. mosthen. De Pace, p. 61. on rovf Quneav (j>vyudaf CU&/J-EV, etc. 3 Demosthen. Fals. Leg. p. 361. -Seafia deivbv nal ifaeivov ore yup vv> eTropev6/tE$a elf A e A o i) f H; dvuyKriQ }]v 6pq.v rjfj.lv iravra ravra, v'iKiae KaTeaKappevaf, reixri Trepir/pjjfteva, %upav eprtfiov TUV kv Trj yXiKia, yvvaia <5e KOI iraiddpLO. bhiya KOI Trpeafivrae av&pcimove olicrpovf, oiiS 1 uv el(, fivvair' 1 tyiiceadai rtJ M>yy TUV EKBL KCIKU v vvv bvruv. As this oration was delivered in 343-342 B. c., the adverb of time vvv may be reasonably referred to the early part of that year, and the journey to Delphi was perhaps undertaken for the spring meeting of the Am- phiktyonic council of that year ; between two and three years after the da traction cf the Phokians by Philip.
 * -ZEschines, Fals. Leg. p. 47. c. 44 ; Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 366 ; De