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 DEPORTATION OF THE ATHENIAN POOR. 32,1 to Thrace, some to the Illyrian or Italian coast, some to Libya or the Kyrenaic territory. Besides the multitude banished sim- ply on the score of comparative poverty, the marked anti-Mace- donian politicians were banished also, including Agnonides, the friend of Demosthenes, and one of his earnest advocates when accused respecting the Harpalian treasures. ^ At the request of Phokion, Antipater consented to render the deportation less sweeping than he had originally intended, so far as to permit some exiles, Agnonides among the rest, to remain within the lim- its of Peloponnesus.^ "We shall see him presently contemplating a still more wholesale deportation of the iEtolian people. It is deeply to be lamented that this important revolution, not only cutting down Athens to less than one-half of her citizen population, but involving a deportation fraught with individual hardship and suffering, is communicated to us only in two or three sentences of Plutarch and Diodorus, without any details from contemporary observers. It is called by Diodorus a return to the Solonian constitution ; but the comparison disgraces the name of that admirable lawgiver, whose changes, taken as a whole, were prodigiously liberal and enfranchising, compared with what he found established. The deportation ordained by Antipater must indeed have brought upon the poor citizens of Athens a state of suffering in foreign lands analogous to that 1 See Fragments of Hyperides adv. Demostli. p. 61-65, ed. Babington. Siaftvpiuv, which seems a mistake) Kal rfta^Yt/'u'wv /xeTeaTudr/aav ek Trjc nar- pidor- ol Je TT/v upiaiiEVTjv TifiTjcnv l^ovrcf ■Kepi ifvaKiaxMovc, uTCE6eix'^V aav Kvpioi Ti]g te TroAeof Koi rr/c x<^P<^Cj ''"' Kara Tovg 26/l(ji'Of vufiovg etto- iuTEvovTo. Plutarch states the disfranchised as above 12,000. Plutarch, Phokion, 28, 29. 'O/iu^ (5' ovv 6 <^ukicjv Kal (pvy^g uir^XTia^e iTO?i.}.ov^ 6e7]-&ei<; rov 'AvTiTvurpov Kal (j)Evyovai. 6iE~pu^aTo. jifj Kad^urcEp oi Xoinol t€)v /JE&taTa/j.£vuv vnip tu KEpavvia bprj Kal top Taivapov EKnEaEcv Tr/r 'EAAuJof, u'/.a' Iv llEXoTTovvrjaij KaroLKEiv, uv rjv Kal 'AyvuvcSrjg 6 cvko- ilUVTT}^. Diodorus and Plutarch (c. 29) mention that Antipater assigned resi- dences in Thrace for the expatriated. Those who went be'ond the Kerau- nian mountains must have gone either to the Illyrian coast, ApoUonia or Epidamnus — or to the Gulf of Tarentum. Those who went beyond Tienarus would probably be sent to Libya see Thucydides, vii. 19, 10; vii. .50, 2. vox.. XII. 28
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