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 440 HISTORY OF GREECE. success, complaining of the calumnies of the orators against Philip asserting emphatically that Philip was animated with the best sentiments towards Athens, and desired only to have an Opportu- nity of rendering service to her and offering to review and amend the terms of the late peace. Such general assurances of friendship, given with eloquence and emphasis, produced consider- able effect in the Athenian assembly, as they had done from the mouth of -ZEschines during the discussions on the peace. The proposal of Python was taken up by the Athenians, and two amendments were proposed. 1. Instead of the existing words of the peace " that each party should have what they actually had" it was moved to substitute this phrase " That each party should have their own." 1 2. That not merely the allies of Ath- ens and of Philip, but also all the other Greeks, should be in- cluded in the peace ; That all of them should remain free and auto- nomous ; That if any of them were attacked, the parties to the treaty on both sides would lend them armed assistance forthwith. 3. That Philip should be required to make restitution of those places, Doriskus, Serreium, etc., which he had captured from Ker- sobleptes after the day when peace was sworn at Athens. The first amendment appears to have been moved by a citizen named Hegesippus, a strenuous anti-philippizing politician, sup- porting the same views as Demosthenes. Python, with the other envoys of Philip, present in the assembly, either accepted these amendments, or at least did not protest against them. He partook of the public hospitality of the city as upon an understanding mu- tually settled. 2 Hegesippus with other Athenians was sent to Macedonia to procure the ratification of Philip; who admitted the justice of the second amendment, offered arbitration respecting the third, but refused to ratify the first disavowing both the gene- ral proposition, and the subsequent acceptance of his envoys at ' Pseudo-Demosth. De Halonneso, p. 81. Hepi de rj?f elpf/vrjf, f/v etio av ijfjilv ol 7rpe<7/?etf ol Trap' iiceivov ire/KptfE vref iiravop $ uaacfdai, on kirrj v upd uoafieti a, 6 napa iraoiv dvtfpuTrotf 6f*o2.o- sirat diKaiov elvai, e Karepovf t%eiv T a i avT uv, ufKfuffjStjTel (Philip) U.T] deSuKfvat, firjde roilf irpeapeif raitr' 1 sipr/nevai irpbf vpu, etc. Compare Demosthen. Fals. Leg. p. 398. Leg. p. 364.
 * Pseudo-Demosth. De IlaJonneso. p. 81. Sec Ulpian ad Bemosth. Fal