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 324 inSTORY OF GREECE. According to the terms dictated by Antipater, the Athenians were required to jiay a sum equal to the whole cost of the war ; to surrender Demosthenes, Hyperides, and seemingly at least two other anti-Macedonian orators ; to receive a Macedonian garrison in Munychia ; to abandon their democratical constitu- tion and disfranchise all their poorer citizens. Most of these poor men were to be transported from their homes, and to re- ceive new lands on a foreign shore. The Athenian colonists in Samos were to be dispossessed and the island retransferred to the Samian exiles and natives. It is said that Phokion and Demades heard these terms with satisfaction, as lenient and reasonable. Xenokrates entered against them the strongest protest which the occasion admitted, when he said* — " If Antipater looks upon us as slaves, the terms are moderate ; if as freemen, they are severe." To Phokion's entreaty, that the introduction of the garrison might be dispensed with, Antipater replied in the negative, intimating that the garri- son would be not less serviceable to Phokion himself than to the Macedonians ; while Kallimedon also, an Athenian exile there present, repelled the proposition with scorn. Respecting the isl- and of Samos, Antipater was prevailed upon to allow a special reference to the imperial authority. If Phokion thought these terms lenient, we must imagine that he expected a sentence of destruction against Athens, such as Alexander had pronounced and executed against Thebes. Un- der no other comparison can they appear lenient. Out of 21,000 qualified citizens of Athens, all those who did not possess proper- ty to the amount of 2000 drachmae were condemned to disfran- chisement and deportation. The number below this prescribed qualification, who came under the penalty, was 12,000, or three- fifths of the whole. They were set aside as turbulent, noisy democrats ; the 9000 richest citizens, the " party of order," were left in exclusive possession, not only of the citizenship, but of the o.ly. The condemned 12,000 were deported out of Attica, some 1 Plutarch, Pliokion, 27. Oi uev (ivi> uaIol n-peaiSeic ip/arrrjaav ug (piXav- OpiJTrovg Ttlc dLalvaetc, ttai/v tov EevoKpurovc, etc. Pausanias even stales (vii. 10, 1) that Antipater was disposed to grant more lenient terms, bul was dissuaded from doing so by Demades.