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former passed, it should seem, before Autocles went out to Thrace, and its effects, were visited on that commander. Possibly (but this is mere conjecture) it was a decree in some way complimentary to Iphicrates.

P. 294-355. It does not, we think, appear that Chabrias's treaty with Cersobleptes ever held good. Demosthenes's words (in loco) seem rather to convey, that the people never ratified it at all.

P. 398. There is here a trifling deviation from Diodorus, whe tells us, that the Lacedæmonians were joined by a large force of their allies before they took Orneæ.

Is it not probable from Diodorus, that Phalacus took advantage of the absence of the Thebans in Peloponnesus to attack Cheronea? The original will bear that construction.

P. 400. Rollin has fallen into the same mistake as Auger; and refers, for his authority, to that very passage in Diodorus alluded to by Mr Mitford.

P 422. The quotation from Demosthenes is somewhat unfair. Demosthenes only implies covertly and incidentally what Mr Mitford states him to have openly pronounced. It is the basest of all things (says the orator) to let slip from our hands, not only the cities and places of which we were formerly masters, but also the allies and opportunities furnished by fortune.

P. 425. The naval force despatched under Chares to the assistance of the Olynthians, is said, by Demosthenes, to have amounted to fifty triremes.-De legat.

P. 432. (Note 11.) There seems a slight incorrectness with respect to the persons to whom the quotation is applied. Trous refers not to the Macedonians, but to the Macedonian party in Olynthus, to those who had received bribes.

P. 464. There is a slight oversight in saying, that Demosthenes took the lead in speaking before the assembly of the people. He expressly declares, that Aschines was the first of the embassy who spoke, and that he himself immediately followed.--De legat.

P. 496. The story of Pteodorus seems incorrectly given. Demosthenes says, not that Ptæodorus went himself, but that he sent Perilaus back to Philip; that after this, Perilaus came at the head of the mercenaries to Megara, while Pteodorus was employed in taking measures within the city.-Dem. de legat.

P. 561. There is an inaccuracy, scarcely worth notice, in the computation of the English money from the Greek, which is corrected by a reference to Mr Mitford's own table of monies. 1000 drachmæ equalled in Sterling 321. 5s. 10d. Demosthenes was to receive annually twice that sum.

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P. 562. Demosthenes says, that Eschines began his accusation against the Amphissians immediately after he had taken his seat in the Amphictyonic council; and speaks of the proceedings as having followed without any delay. Why then does Mr Mitford say, The crisis at length arose?' &c.

P. 580. It does not appear from Eschines, that the Thebans were offended at Nicæas being given away to the Thessalians, but at its being given away at all.

Upon the whole, though we think it rather unfortunate that the story of the Grecian republics should have been told by one who has so many anti-republican partialities, we think it our duty to testify, that it has been more justly told by Mr Mitford than by any preceding author; and that those who differ from him in his political conclusions, must still acknowledge their obligations to the clearness and fulness of his narrative.

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