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 300 HISTORY OF GRhhOE. ment from Hype rides and the other Harpalian partisans, who de« nounced him as a subservient creature of the all-powerful mon- arch. Harpalus was confined, but presently made his escape ; probably much to the satisfaction of Pliokion, Demosthenes, and every one else ; for even those who were most anxious to get rid of him would recoil from the odium and dishonor of surrendering him, even under constraint, to a certain death. He fled to Krete, where he was soon after slain by one of his ow^n companions.^ At the time when the decrees for arrest and sequestration were passed, Demosthenes requested a citizen near him to ask Harpalus publicly in the assembly, what was the amount of his money, which the people had just resolved to impound.^ Harpa- lus answered, 720 talents ; and Demosthenes proclaimed this sum to the people, on the authority of Harpalus, dwelling with some emphasis upon its magnitude. But when the money came to be counted in the acropolis, it was discovered that there was in real- ity no more than 350 talents. Now it is said that Demosthenes did not at once communicate to the people this prodigious defi- ciency in the real sum as compared wath the announcement of Harpalus, repeated in the public assembly by himself. The im- pression prevailed, for how long a time we do not know, that 720 Harpalian talents had actually been lodged in the acropolis ; and when the truth became at length known, great surprise and out- dij fi A7]/io(y&£V7}g, wf drjAovori SiKaiov tov irpuyfia-og ovroc, (pv/.uTreiv Ale^uvdpo) -d etc I'rjv 'Attiki/v u(piKu/i£va /hetu 'ApwuXov xp'/para. Deinarchus (advr. Demosth. s. 97-106) accuses Demosthenes of base flattery to Alexander. Hyperides also makes the same charge — see the Fragments in Mr. Babington's edition, sect. 2. Fr. 1 1, p. 12 ; sect. 3. Fr. 5. p. 34. 1 Pausan. ii. 33, 4; Diodor. xvii. 108. 2 This material fact, of the question publicly put to Harpalus in the as- sembly by some one at the request of Demosvhcnes, appears in the Frag- ments of Hyperides, p. 5, 7, 9, ed. Babington — Kad///i£vog kutu vTib tj Karmofuj, EKi?.EVtje rbv ;;opeiir7/v tpurrjaai tuv 'ApndXov oiroaa tlti rd xphlJ-o^'O- 1"" uvoi(j^!](T6fi€va f/f t>/v uKpoiroXtv' 6 Je utt e k piv aro 3ri e~rnKocia, etc. The term Kararofi^ (see Mr. Babington's note) "designates a broad pas sage occurring at intervals between the concentrically arranged benches' o/ •eats in a theatre, and running parallel with them."'