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 1'HILII' TAKES THEBES. ^(,5 the field of Cbasroneia ; while Thebes, being much nearer, bore the first attack of Philip. Of the behavior of that prince after his victory, we have contradictory statements. According to one account, he indulged in the most insulting and licentious exulta- tion on the field of battle, jesting especially on the oratory and motions of Demosthenes ; a temper, from which he was brought round by the courageous reproof of Demades, then his prisoner as one of the Athenian hoplites. 1 At first he even refused to grant permission to inter the slain, when the herald came from Lebadeia to make the customary demand. 2 According to anoth- er account, the demeanor of Philip towards the defeated Athe- nians was gentle and forbearing. 3 However the fact may have stood as to his first manifestations, it is certain that his positive measures were harsh towards Thebes and lenient towards Athens. He sold the Theban captives into slavery ; he is said also to have exacted a price for the liberty granted to bury the Theban slain which liberty, according to Grecian custom, was never refused and certainly never sold, by the victor. Whether Thebes mau-o any farther resistance, or stood a siege, we do not know. But presently the city fell into Philip's power, who put to death sev eral of the leading citizens, banished others, and confiscated the property of both. A council of Three Hundred composed of philippizing Thebans, for the most part just recalled from exile was invested with the government of the city, and with powers of life and death over every one. 4 The state of Thebes became much the same as it had been when the Spartan Phrebidas, in con- cert with the Theban party headed by Leontiades, surprised the Kadmeia. A Macedonian garrison was now placed in the Kad- meia, as a Spartan garrison had been placed then. Supported by this garrison, the philippizing Thebans were uncontrolled masters of the city ; with full power, and no reluctance, to gratify their political antipathies. At the same time, Philip restored the minor 1 Diodor. xvi. 87. The story respecting Demades is told somewhat dif fcrently in Scxtus Empiricus adv. Grammaticos, p. 281. 3 Justin, ix. 4; Polybius, v. 10; Theopomp. Frag. 262. See the rote of Wichers ad Theopompi Fragmenta, p. 259. 4 Justin, ix. 4. Dieuarch. cont. Dcmosth. s. 20. p. 92. VOL. xi. 43
 * Plutarch, Vit. X. Orator, p. 849.