However, their expectations were entirely disappointed by the ignorance and hatred of good men displayed by Antipater.  In the first place, though he shook hands with the others, he bestowed no greeting upon Xenokrates; upon which Xenokrates is said to have remarked that Antipater did well in showing that he felt shame before him for the treatment which he was about to inflict upon the city.  After this Xenokrates began to make him a speech, but Antipater would not suffer him to proceed, and by rude interruptions reduced him to silence.  After Phokion and Demades had spoken, Antipater stated his willingness to make peace and become an ally of the Athenians, if they would deliver up Demosthenes, Hypereides, and some other orators to him,[644] re-establish their original government, in which the magistrates were chosen according to property, receive a garrison in Munychia, and pay the whole expenses of the war, besides a fine.  The ambassadors thought that they ought to be contented and thankful for these terms, with the exception of Xenokrates, who said, “If Antipater looks upon us as slaves, the terms are moderate; if as free men, they are severe."[645] When Phokion earnestly begged Antipater not to send a garrison to Athens, he is said to have said in reply, “Phokion, I am willing to grant you any request you please, unless it be one which would be fatal both to you and to myself.”  Some say that this is not the true version of the incident, but that Antipater enquired of Phokion whether, if he did not place a garrison in Athens, Phokion would guarantee that the city would abide by the terms of the peace, and not intrigue with a view of regaining its independence:  and as Phokion was silent and hesitated how to reply, Kallimedon, surnamed ‘the crab’ a man of a fierce and anti-democratical temper, exclaimed:  “If, Antipater, this man should talk nonsense, will you believe him, and not do what you have decided upon?”

XXVIII.  Thus it came to pass that the Athenians received into their city a Macedonian garrison, whose commander was Menyllus, an amiable man and a friend of Phokion himself.  It was thought that the sending of the garrison was a mere piece of arrogance on Antipater’s part, and to be more due to an insolent desire to show the extent of his power than to any real necessity.  The time, too, at which it was sent, rendered its arrival especially galling to the Athenians:  for it was during the celebration of the mysteries, on the twentieth day of the month Boedromion, that the garrison entered the city.  On that day, Iacchus used to be carried in procession from Athens to Eleusis, but now the whole ritual was marred, and the Athenians sadly contrasted this celebration of the mysteries with those of former years.  In earlier times,[646] when the city was powerful and flourishing, the splendid spectacle of the celebration of the mysteries used to strike awe and terror into the hearts of the enemies of Athens, but now at these same rites the gods seemed