THERMOPYLAE -SURRENDERED. 421 Thermopylae successfully without A'hens, much more against Athens, was impracticable. Leaving Athens after the assembly of the IGth Skirrophorion, the Phokian deputies carried back the tidings of what had passed to Phalaekus, whom they reached at Nikaea, near Thermopyla3, about the 20th of the same month.i Three days afterwards, Phalaekus, with his powerful army of eight thousand or ten thou- sand mercenary infantry and one thousand cavalry, had concluded 4 convention with Philip. The Lacedaemonian auxiliaries, per- ueiving the insincere policy of Athens, and the certain ruin of the Phokians, had gone away a little before. 2 It was stipulated in the convention that Phalaekus should evacuate the territory, and re- tire wherever else he pleased, with his entire mercenary force and with all such Phokians as chose to accompany him. The re maining natives threw themselves upon the mercy of the con queror. All the towns in Phokis, twenty-two in number, together with the pass of Thermopylae, were placed in the hands of Philip ; all surrendering at discretion ; all without resistance. The moment Philip was thus master of the country, he joined his forces with those of the Thebans, and proclaimed his purpose of acting thor oughly upon their policy ; of transferring to them a considerable portion of Phokis ; of restoring to them Orchomenus, Korsioe, and Koroneia, Boeotian towns which the Phokians had taken from them ; and of keeping the rest of Bosotia in their dependence, just as he found it. 3 of the news which they carried back in determining the capitulation. lie complains of them generally as being "got up against him" (6 /car^yopof uefirixuvqTai), but he does not contradict them upon any specific point. Nor does he at all succeed in repelling the main argument, brought home with great precision of date by Demosthenes. 1 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 359 : compare Diodor. xvi. 59. In this pas- sage, Demosthenes reckons up seven days between the final assembly at Athens, and the capitulation concluded by the Phokians. In another pas sage, he states the same interval at only Jive days (p. 365) ; which is doubt- less inaccurate. In a third passage, the same interval, seemingly, stands &t five or six days, p. 379. 2 Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 356-365. irrei6^ 6' TJKSV (Philip) elf IIiAcf, A-dKetai/tdviot. 6' a'tado/ievci rqv kvedpiv i'ire%('<>pi)oav, etc. 8 Demosthen Fals. Leg, p. 359, 36', 365, 379,413. 6 6e (/"Eschines" VOL. xi. 86
