[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:  [Greek:  Hebe], the word here used, means the time just before manhood, from about fourteen to twenty years of age; at Sparta it was fixed at eighteen, so that of [Greek:  hoi deka aph’ hebes] ’ were men of twenty-eight, [Greek:  hoi tettarakonta aph’ hebes] ’ men of fifty-eight, &c.  Xen.  Hell. 3. 4, 23.  Liddell and Scott.  Here, therefore, [Greek:  hoi achri heksekonta aph’ hebes] ’ must mean all citizens under about seventy-five years of age.]

[Footnote 638:  Rhamnus was a demus of Attica, situated on a small rocky peninsula on the east coast of Attica, sixty stadia from Marathon.]

[Footnote 639:  In Thessaly.  The action was fought B.C. 322.  Menon with his Thessalian horse defeated the Macedonian cavalry, but the Greek infantry were beaten back by the phalanx, with a loss of 120 men.]