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"WAR II? CHALKIDIKE. 349 imagined that the powerful party, who habitually resisted the di- version of money from the Theoric Fund to war purposes, should have been wholly silent or actually concurrent on this occasion, though they may have been out-voted. The motion of Apollodo- rus was one which could not be made without distinctly breaking the law, and rendering the mover liable to those penal conse- quences which afterwards actually fell upon him. Now, that even a majority, both of senate and assembly, should have overleaped this illegality, is a proof sufficiently remarkable how strongly the crbis pressed upon their minds. The expedition of Athenian citizens, sent to Olynthus before Midsummer 349 B. c., would probably return after a campaign of two or three months, and after having rendered some service against the Macedonian army. The warlike operations of Philip against the Chalkidians and Olynthians were noway relaxed. He pressed the Chalkidians more and more closely throughout all the ensuing eighteen months (from Midsummer 349 B. c. to the early spring of 347 B. c.). During the year Olymp. 407, 4, if the cita- tion from Philochorus * is to be trusted, the Athenians despatched to their aid three expeditions ; one, at the request of the Olyn- thians, who sent envoys to pray for it consisting of two thou- sand peltasts under Chares, in thirty ships partly manned by Athe- nian seamen. A second under Charidemus, at the earnest entrea- ty of the suffering Chalkidians ; consisting of eighteen triremes, four thousand peltasts and one hundred and fifty horsemen. Cha- ridemus, in conjunction with the Olynthians, marched over Bottia^a and the peninsula of Pallene, laying waste the country ; whether he achieved any important success, we do not know. Respecting both Chares and Charidemus, the anecdotes descending to us are of insolence, extortion, and amorous indulgences, rather than of military exploits. 2 It is clear that neither the one nor the other achieved anything effectual against Philip, whose arms and cor- ruption made terrible progress in Chalkidike. So grievously did 1 Philoehorus ap. Dionys. Hal. ad Amra. p. 734, 735. Philochorus tells us that the Athenians now contracted the alliance with Olynthus ; which certainly is not accurate. The alliance hal been contracted in the preced- ing year. s Theopomp. Fragm. 183-238; Athenseus, xii. p 532. VOL. XT. 30