Nothing
indeed can be more obscure and difficult to disentangle than the
sequence of Euboean transactions."--'Hist. of Greece,' Part ii., ch.
lxxxviii.]

[Footnote 627: From Plutarch's narrative one would imagine that the
"enemy" must mean the Macedonians: but we find that they really were
the native Euboeans, led by Kallias of Chalkis, with only a detachment
of Macedonians and some Phokian mercenary troops.]

[Footnote 628: Disregarding Phokion's order, and acting with a
deliberate treason which was accounted at Athens unparalleled,
Plutarchus advanced out of the camp to meet them; but presently fled,
drawing along in his flight the Athenian horse, who had also advanced
in some disorder. --Grote, l.c.]

[Footnote 629: The battle of Chaeronea, which took place in August,
B.C. 338.]

[Footnote 630: The Greek is "to offer sacrifice," with the implied
idea of feasting on the animal offered. In the first chapter of this
Life we learn that it was only the less eatable parts of the victim
which were burned. Thus the idea of offering sacrifice always
suggested merry-making and feasting to the Greek mind. Grote says, "We
cannot doubt that the public of Athens, as well as Demosthenes, felt
great joy at an event which seemed to open to them fresh chances of
freedom, and that the motion for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, in spite
of Phokion's opposition, was readily adopted."]

[Footnote 631: This speech of Phokion is given at greater length by
Diodorus, xvii. 15.]

[Footnote 632: A quarter of Athens, probably south of the Acropolis.
See Lieut.-Col. Leake's 'Topography of Athens,' sect. iv.]

[Footnote 633: The original is [Greek: apobates], which corresponds to
the Latin desultor, meaning one who rode several horses, leaping from
one to the other.]

[Footnote 634: Plutarch's narrative here is misleading, as it seems to
imply that Harpalus gave this money to Charikles _after_ his arrival
in Athens. We know from Theopompus (Fr. 277) that the monument had
been finished some time before Harpalus quitted Asia. Plutarch treats
it as a mean structure, unworthy of the sum expended on it; but both
Dikaearchus and Pausanias describe it as stately and magnificent.
Grote's 'History of Greece,' Part II. ch. xcv., note.]

[Footnote 635: See Life of Demosthenes, ch. xxv.; and Grote, Hist. of
Greece, Part II., ch. xcv.]

[Footnote 636: The Lamian war, so called from the siege of Lamia, in
which Leosthenes perished.]

[Footnote 637