42G HISTORY OF GREECE. Apollo, and by the fact that its inhabitants had taken no purl ii the spoliation of Delphi. 1 No village was allowed to contain more than fifty houses, nor to be nearer to another than a minimum dis- tance of one furlong. Under such restriction, the Phokians were still allowed to possess and cultivate their territory, with the ex- ception of a certain portion of the frontier transferred to the The- bans ; 2 but they were required to pay to the Delphian temple an annual tribute of fifty talents, until the wealth taken away should have been made good. The horses of the Phokians were directed to be sold ; their arms were to be cast down the precipices of Par- nassus, or burnt. Such Phokians as had participated individually in the spoliation, were proclaimed accursed, and rendered liable to arrest wherever they were found. 3 By the same Amphiktyonic assembly, farther, the Lacedasmo- nians, as having been allies of the Phokians, were dispossessed of their franchise, that is, of their right to concur in the Amphikty- onic suffrage of the Dorian nation. This vote probably emanated from the political antipathies of the Argeians and Messenians. 4 The sentence, rigorous as it is, pronounced by the Amphiktyons against the Phokians, was merciful as compared with some of the propositions made in the assembly. The CEtaeans went so far as to propose, that all the Phokians of military age should be cast down the precipice ; and JEschines takes credit to himself for having induced the assembly to hear their defence, and thereby preserved their lives. 5 But though the terms of the sentence may have been thus softened, we may be sure that the execution of it by Thebans, Thessalians, and other foreigners quartered on the fiountry, all bitter enemies of the Phokian name, and giving vent to their antipathies under the mask of pious indignation 1 Pausanias, x. 3, 2. 8 This transfer to the Thebans is not mentioned by Diodorus, but seems contained in the words of Demosthenes (Fals. Leg. p. 385) TTJ( TUV 4>&>- K3'jv x&pae oTroaqv ftoMovrac : compare p. 380. 3 Diodor. xvi. 60 ; Demosth. Fals. Leg. p. 385. 5Auv ruv TEIX&V ical run irvtxuv avaipeaei?. Demosthenes causes this severe sentence of the Am- phiktyonic council to be read to the Dikastery (Demosth. Fals. Lcg.p 361.) Unfortunately it has not been preserved. 4 Pausanias, x. 8, 2. -Sschines, Fals. Leg p. 47 c. 44.
