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ERGOPHILUS AND KALLISTHENES. 871 joint invasion had so much weakened the (Jlynthians as to disable them from affording aid to Amphipolis. At least, this hypothesis explains how Amphipolis came now, for the first time, to be nc longer a free city ; but to be disjoined from Olynthus, and joined with (probably garrisoned by) Perdikkas, as a possession of Mace- donia. 1 Kallisthenes thus found himself at war under greater disadvantages than Timotheus ; having Perdikkas as his enemy, together with Amphipolis. Nevertheless, it would appear, he gained at first great advantages, and reduced Perdikkas to the necessity of purchasing a truce by the promise to abandon the Amphipolitans. The Macedonian prince, however, having gained time during the truce to recover his strength, no longer thought of performing his promise, but held Amphipolis against the Athe- nians as obstinately as before. Kallisthenes had let slip an oppor- tunity which never again returned. After having announced at Athens the victorious truce and the approaching surrender, he seems to have been compelled, on his return, to admit that he had been cheated into suspending operations, at a moment when (as it seemed) Amphipolis might have been conquered. For this misjudgment or misconduct he was put upon trial at Athens, on returning to his disappointed countrymen ; and at the same time Ergophilus also, who had been summoned home from the Cherso nesus for his ill-success or bad management of the war against Kotys. 2 The people were much incensed against both ; but most against Ergophilus. Nevertheless it happened that Kallisthenes was tried first, and condemned to death. On the next day, Ergo- philus was tried. But the verdict of the preceding day had dis- charged the wrath of the dikasts, and rendered them so much more indulgent, that they acquitted him. 3 Autokles was sent in place of Ergophilus to carry on war for Athens in the Hellespont and Bosphorus. It was not merely against Kotys that his operations were necessary. The Prokon- 1 Compare Demosthen. cont. Aristokrat. p. 669, s. 174-176 ; and JEschi- aes, Fals. Leg. p. 250, c. 14. 2 The facts as stated in the text are the most probable result, as it seem* to me, derivable from JEschines, Fals. Leg. p. 250, c. 14. 8 Aristotel. Ehetoric. ii, 3, 3. Ergophilus seems to have been fined (Deraosthen. "Fals. Leg. p. 398, 200.