In the tenth year after the seizure of the sanctuary, Philip put an end to the war, which was called both the War of Phokis and the Sacred War, in the year when Theophilus was archon [arkhōn] in Athens, which was the first of the hundred and eighth Olympiad at which Polykles of Cyrene was victorious in the foot-race.¹ The cities of Phokis were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaia, Hyampolis, Antikyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus, and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of old, especially because of the poetry of Homer.²

The army of Xerxes, burning down certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Kharadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium, and Drymaia. The rest of the cities of Phokis, except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Trakhis-in-Phokis, Medeon-in-Phokis, Ekhedameia, Ambrossos, Ledon, Phlygonion, and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred, all the cities enumerated were razed to the ground and their people scattered in villages. The one exception to this treatment was Abai, whose citizens were free from impiety, and had no share in the seizure of the sanctuary or in the war.

The people of Phokis were deprived of their share in the Delphic sanctuary and in the Greek assembly, and their votes were given by the Amphiktyones to the Macedonians. Subsequently, however, the cities of Phokis were rebuilt, and their inhabitants restored from the villages to their native cities, save such as were prevented from being rebuilt by their original weakness and by their want of funds at the period of restoration. It was the Athenians and Thebans who brought back the inhabitants before the disaster of Khaironeia befell the Greeks.

The people of Phokis took part in the battle of Khaironeia, and afterwards fought at Lamia and Crannon against the Macedonians under Antipatros. No Greeks were keener defenders against the Gauls and the Celtic invaders than were the men of Phokis, who considered that they were helping the god of Delphi, and at the same time, I take it, that they were making amends for the old crimes they had committed.

PANOPEUS