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 PHILIP IN PELOPONNESUS. 5H dom and lignity, under circumstances of feebleness and humilia- tion, with more unshaken resolution than Athens. Philip next proceeded to convene a congress of Grecian citiea at Corinth. He here announced himself as resolved on an expo dition against the Persian king, for the purpose both of liberating the Asiatic Greeks, and avenging the invasion of Greece by Xerxes. The general vote of the congress nominated him lead- er of the united Greeks for this purpose, and decreed a Grecian force to join him, to be formed of contingents furnished by the various cities. The total of the force promised is stated only by Justin, who gives it at two hundred thousand foot, and fifteen thousand horse ; an army which Greece certainly could not hav furnished, and which we can hardly believe to have been even promised. 1 The Spartans stood aloof from the congress, continu- ing to refuse all recognition of the headship of Philip. The Athenians attended and concurred in the vote ; which was in fact the next step to carry out the peace made by Demades. They were required to furnish a well-equipped fleet to serve under Philip ; and they were at the same time divested of their dignity of chiefs of a maritime confederacy, the islands being enrolled as maritime dependencies of Philip, instead of continuing to send deputies to a synod meeting at Athens. 2 It appears that Samos was still recognized as belonging to them 3 or at least such portion of the island as was occupied by the numerous Athenian kleruchs or outsettlers, first established in the island after the conquest by Timotheus in 365 B. c., and afterwards reinforced. For several years afterwards, the naval force in the dockyards of Athens still continued large and powerful ; but her maritime ascendency henceforward disappears. The Athenians, deeply mortified by such humiliation, were re- 1 Justin, ix. 5. 2 Plutarch, Phokion, c. 16; Pausanias, i. 25, 3. To -yap arv^fia rb {9 Xaipuvela airaai rolf "Eh^Tjcriv fypt; KO.KOV, KOI oi% f/KLara dov^ovf STroiytrt TVV woAeuv elhev. 'Adqvaiot; 6s Aoyp avv&Eftevoe, ep-yc,) aa( knaKuae, vrjaovf re atpe^ofievof Kal rijf elf T& vavriKa 3 Diodor. xviii. 56. 2u/zov de 6idofi.ev 'Aifyvai'oif, iirsid^ nal Trarrjp. Compare Plutarch, Alexand. c. 28.
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