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ATHENIANS AT THE CHf.RSONKSE. 25j> that the Athenians also despatched a fresh batch of 2000 citizens as settlers to Samos, in addition to those who had been sent thither thirteen years before. 1 The mention of Philip as attacking Maroneia and menacing the Thracian Chersonese, shows the indefatigable activity of that prince and the steady enlargement of his power. In 358 B. c., he had taken Amphipolis ; before 355 B. c., he had captured Pydna and Potidasa, founded the new town of Philippi, and apened for himself the resource of the adjoining auriferous re- gion ; he had established relations with Thessaly, assisting the great family of the Aleuadae at Larissa in their struggle against Lykophron and Peitholaus, the despots of Pherre :- he had farther again chastised the interior tribes bordering on Macedonia, Thra- The mention of Pammenes, as being within reach of communication with Kersobleptes the mention of Chares as being at the Chersonese, and send ing home despatches and the notice of Philip as being at Maroneia all conspire to connect this passage with the year 353-352 B. c., and with the facts referred to that year by Diodorus, xvi. 34. There is an interval of five years between the presence of Chares here alluded to, and the presence of Chares noticed before in the same oration, p. 678. s. 206, immediately after the successful expedition to Eubcea in 358 B. c. During these five years, Kersobleptes had acted in a hostile manner towards Athens in the neigh- borhood of the Chersonese (p. 680. s. 214), and also towards the two rival Thracian princes, friends of Athens. At the same time Sestos had again revolted ; the forces of Athens being engaged in the Social War, from 358 to 355 B. c. In 353 B. c. Chares is at the Hellespont, recovers Sestos, and again defeats the intrigues of Kersobleptes, who makes cession to Athens of a portion of territory which he still held in the Chersonese. Diodorus ascribes this cession of Kersobleptes to the motive of aversion towards Philip and goodwill towards the Athenians. Possibly these may have been the motives pretended by Kersobleptes, to whom a certain party at Athens gave credit for more favorable dispositions than the Demosthenic oration against Aristokrates recognizes as we may see from that oration itself. But I rather apprehend that Diodorus, in describing Kersobleptes as hostile to Philip, and friendly to Athens, has applied to the year 353 B. c. a state of relations which did not become true until a later date, nearer to the time when peace was made between Philip and the Athenians in 346 B. c. 1 Dionysius, Hal. Judic. de Dinarcho, p. 664 ; Strabo, xiv. p. 638. 3 Diodor. xvi, 14. This passage relates to the year 357-356 B. c., and pos sibly Philip may have begun to meddle in the Thessalian party-disputes. even as early as that year ; but his effective interference comes two or three years later. Sea the general order of Philip's aggressions indicated by Do- caosthems, Olynth. i p. 12. s. 13.