THE

HISTORY

OF

ANCIENT GREECE,

ITS COLONIES, AND CONQUESTS;

FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TILL THE

DIVISION OF THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE IN THE EAST.

INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF

LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE FINE ARTS.

BY JOHN GILLIES, LL.D.

F.R.S. and A.S. London, F.R.S. Edinburgh, and Historiographer
to his Majesty for Scotland.

FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION.

Εκ μεν τοίγε της άπαντων προς άλληλα συμπλοκής και παραθές
σεως, ετι δε ὁμοιοτητος και διαφορας, μόνως αν τις εφίκοιτο και
δυνηθείη κατοπτευσας, ἅμα και το χρησιμον και το τερπνον εκ
της ίςορίας λαβειν.
POLYBIUS, l.i. c.v.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY R. M'DERMUT & D. D. ARDEN,

No. 1, City-Hotel, Broadway.

1814,

10271-9

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

FORBES & CO. PRINTERS,

78 GOLD-STREET.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

CHAP. XXXIII.

History of Macedon.-Reign of Archelaus.-Series

of Usurpations and Revolutions.--Perdiccas defeat-

ed by the Illyrians.-Distracted State of Macedon.

-First Transactions of Philip.-State of Thrace

and Paonia.-Philip defeats Argaus and the Athe-

nians.-His Treatment of the Prisoners.-His mi-

litary Arrangements. He defeats the Illyrians.-

His Designs against Amphipolis.—He prevents an

Alliance between Athens and Olynthus.-Amuses

the Athenians.-Takes Amphipolis.-His Con-

quests in Thrace.-The Mines of Crenida.-

Philip marries Olympias,-His Letter to Aristotle.

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CHAP. XXXIV.

Philip's Prosperity.-Imprudent Measures of the

Amphictyonic Council.-The Phocian, or Sacred

War.-Philomelus seizes the Temple of Delphi.

-Takes the Field against the Thebans and their

Allies.-Defeat and Death of Philomelus.

Affairs of Thrace, Macedon, and Attica.-One-

marchus takes the Command of the Phocians.-

Encounters Philip in Thessaly.-He is defeated

and slain.-Philip's Designs against Olynthus

and Byzantium.-Traversed by the Athenians.-

Phayllus takes the Command of the Phocians.—

Philip marches towards Thermopyla.-Antici-

pated by the Athenians.-Demosthenes' first Phi-

lippic.-Philip's Occupations at Pella.-His Vi-

ces-and Policy.

CHAP. XXXV.

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Negligence and Licentiousness of the Athenians.-

Philip's Intrigues in Eubœa.-Phocion defeats

the Macedonians and Eubaans.-Philip invades

the Olynthian Territory.-Demosthenes' Ora-

tions in favour of the Olynthians.-Expedition

of Chares.-Philip takes Olynthus.-Celebrates

the Festival of the Muses at Dium.-Commits

naval Depredations on Attica.-His Embassy to

Athens.-The Athenian Embassy to Philip.-

Character of the Ambassadors.-Their Conference

with the King-Differently reported to the Senate

and Assembly.-Philip's Conquests in Thrace.-

The Phocian War.-Negociations.-Philip's In-

trigues. Decree of the Amphictyons against Pho-

cis.-Executed by Philip.-Macedon acknow-

ledged the principal Member of the Amphictyonic

Council.

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