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 444 HISTORY OF GREECE. most disaffected to him. 1 "We also read, that he again overran and subdued the Illyrian, Dardanian, and Fceonian tribes on hid northern and western boundary ; capturing many of their towns, and bringing back much spoil ; and that he defeated the Thracian prince Kersobleptes, to the great satisfaction of the Greek cities on and near the Hellespont. 2 He is said farther to have re- distributed the population of Macedonia, transferring inhabitant? from cne town to another accord : nc as he desired to iavor or dis- courage residence to the great misery and suffering of the fami- lieu so removed. 3 Such was the exuberant activity of Philip, felt everywhere from the coasts of the Propontis to those of the Ionian sea and the Corinthian Gulf. Every year his power increased; while the cities of the Grecian world remained passive, uncombined, and without recognizing any one of their own number as leader. The philippizing factions were everywhere rising in arms or conspiring to seize the governments for their own account under Philip's aus- pices; while those who clung to free and popular Hellenism were discouraged and thrown on the defensive. 4 It was Philip's policy to avoid or postpone any breach of peace with Athens ; the only power under whom Grecian combination against him was practicable. But a politician like Demosthenes foresaw clearly enough the coming absorption of the Grecian Avorld, Athens included, into the dominion of Macedonia, unless some means could be found of reviving among its members a spirit of vigorous and united defence. In or before the year 344 B. c., we find this orator again coming forward in the Athenian assem- bly, persuading his countrymen to send a mission into Pelopon- 1 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 368, 424, 436; Philipp. iii. 117, 118. iv. p. 133 De CoronS, p. 324 ; Pseudo-Demosth. De Halonneso, p. 84, Compare Harpokration v. Ae/caJap^'a. 8 Diodor. xvi. 69, 71. 3 Justin, viii. 5, 6. " Rcversus in regnura, ut pecora pastores nunc in hybernos, imnc in tcstivos saltus trajiciunt sic ille populos et urbes, utilli el replenda vel derelinquenda quaequas loca videbantur, ad libidincm suaiu transfort. Miseranda ubique fades et similis excidio erat," etc. Compare Livy, xl. 3, where similar proceedings of Philip son of Demetrius (n. a 182) sire described.
 * Sec a striking passage in f e fourth Philippic of Demosthenes, p 133