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 320 HISTORY OF GRF.ECE. which Sol m describes as having preceded his Seisachtheia, oi measure for the relief of debtors.* "What rules the nine thou- sand remaining citizens adopted for their new constitution, we do not know. "Whatever they did, must now have been subject to the consent of Antipater and the Macedonian garrison, which entered Munychia, under the command of MenjUus, on the twentieth day of the month Boedromion (September), rather more than a month after the battle of Krannon. The day of its entry presented a sorrowful contrast. It was the day on which, during the annual ceremony of the mysteries of Eleusinian De- meter, the multitudinous festal procession of citizens escorted the god lacchus from Athens to Eleusis.'- One of the earliest measures of the nine thousand was, to con- demn to death, at the motion of Delnades, the distinguished anti- Macedonian orators who had already fled — Demosthenes, Hy- perides, Aristonikus, and Himerajus, brother of the citizen after- wards celebrated as Demetrius the Phalerean. The three last having taken refuge in ^gina, and Demosthenes in Kalauria, all of them were out of the reach of an Athenian sentence, but not beyond that of the Macedonian sword. At this miserable season, Greece was full of similar exiles, the anti-Macedonian leaders out of all the cities which had taken part in the Lamian war. The officers of Antipater, called in the language of the lime the Exile-Hunters,^ were everywhere on the look-out to seize these proscribed men ; many of the orators, from other cit- ies as well as from Athens, were slain ; and there was no refuge except the mountains of ^tolia for any of them.* One of these officers, a Thurian named Archias, who had once been a tragic actor, passed over with a company of Thracian soldiers to -S^gi- ' Plutarch, Phokion, 28. tK-aenoliopKTJuivoi^ t^Keoav. compare Solon, Fragment 28, ed. Gaisfonl. ^ Plutarch, Phokion, 28. '^ Plutarch, Uemosth. 28. Kpxiai u n/.j]^eli ^vjado^i/pag. Plutarch, ViU X. Oratt. p. 84G. ■• Polybius, i.. 29, 30. This is stated, as matter of traditional pride, by an JEtolian speaker more than a century afterward.s. In the speech of his Akarnanian opponent, there is nothing to contradict it — while the fact is in itself highly probable. See Wcsterniann, Geschichte dcr Bcrcdsamkeit in Gricchcnland, ch. 71 note 4-