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Philip's Treatment of the Conquered 271
should not be called king, but general of Greece; and conducted
himself with such prudence between his own secret
joy on the one hand and the grief
of the enemy on the
other, that he neither appeared to his own subjects to rejoice,
nor to the vanquished to insult them. To the
Athenians, whom he had found to be his bitterest enemies,
he sent back their prisoners without ransom, and gave up
the bodies of the slain for burial, bidding them convey the
relics of their dead to the sepulchres of their ancestors.
He also sent Alexander, his son, with his friend Antipater
to Athens, to establish peace and friendship with them.
The Thebans, however, he compelled to purchase their
prisoners as well as the liberty of burying their dead.
Some of the chief men of the city, too, he put to death;
others he banished, seizing upon the property of them all.
Afterward he reinstated in
their country those that had
been unjustly banished, of whom he made three hundred
judges and governors of the city,
before whom when the
most eminent citizens were arraigned on this very charge,
that of having banished them unjustly, they had such
spirit that they all acknowledged their participation in the
fact, and proved that it was better with the state when
they were condemned than when they were restored.
wonderful instance of courage! They passed sentence, as
far as they could, on those who had the disposal of them
for life or death, and set at naught the pardon which their
enemies could give them; and as they could not avenge
themselves by deeds, they manifested their boldness by
spirit of words.
War being at an end in Greece, PhiUp directed deputies
from all the states to be summoned to Corinth, to settle
the condition of affairs. Here he fixed terms of peace for
the whole of Greece, according to the merits of each city;
A
Harsh treatment
of the
Thebans.
The council
at Corinth.
Justin ix. 5.