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IMPEACHMENT OF PHILOKRATES. 433 all that he could towards this object, cannot be determined ; but we find no proof of any short-coming. The only point upon which Demosthenes appears open to censure, is, on his omission to pro- test emphatically during the debates of the month Elaphebolion at Athens, when the Phokians were first practically excluded from the treaty. I discover no other fault established on probable grounds against him, amidst the multifarious accusations, chiefly personal and foreign to the main issue, preferred by his opponent. Respecting Philokrates the actual mover, in the Athenian assembly, of all the important resolutions tending to bring about this peace we learn that being impeached by Hyperides ] not long afterwards, he retired from Athens without standing trial, and was condemned in his absence. Both he and -ZEschines (so Demosthenes asserts) had received from Philip bribes and grants out of the spoils of Olynthus ; and Philokrates, especially, dis- played his newly-acquired wealth at Athens with impudent osten- fation. 2 These are allegations in themselves probable, though coming from a political rival. The peace, having disappointed every one's hopes, came speedily to be regarded with shame and regret, of which Philokrates bore the brunt as its chief author. Both .ZEschines and Demosthenes sought to cast upon each other ihe imputation of confederacy with Philokrates. The pious feeling of Diodorus leads him to describe, with pe- culiai seriousness, the divine judgments which fell on all those conceined in despoiling the Delphian temple. Phalaekus, with his mercenaries out of Phokis, retired first into Peloponnesus ; from thence seeking to cross to Tarentum, he was forced back when actually on shipboard by a mutiny of his soldiers, and passed into Krete. Here he took service with the inhabitants of Knos- sus against those of Lyktus. Over the latter he gained a victory, and their city was only rescued from him by the unexpected ar- rival of the Spartan king Archidamus. That prince, recently the auxiliary of Phalaekus in Phokis, was now on his way Across the sea towards Tarentum ; near which city he was slain n few years afterwards. Phalsekus, repulsed from Lyktus, next laid siege to Kydonia, and was bringing up engines to batter the walls, 1 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 376. 4 Demosth. Fals. Lc. p. 375, 376, 377, 386 VOL. xi. 37