got rid of, and the people had control of the city and of Porthmus, one
party wished to entrust the State to you, the other to entrust it to
Philip. And through listening mainly, or rather entirely, to the latter,
these poor luckless Eretrians were at last persuaded to banish the
advocates of their own interests. {58} For, as you know, Philip, their
ally, sent Hipponicus with a thousand mercenaries, stripped Porthmus of
its walls, and set up three tyrants--Hipparchus, Automedon, and
Cleitarchus; and since then he has already twice expelled them from the
country when they wished to recover their position [sending on the first
occasion the mercenaries commanded by Eurylochus, on the second, those
under Parmenio].

{59} And why go through the mass of the instances? Enough to mention how
in Oreus Philip had, as his agents, Philistides, Menippus, Socrates,
Thoas, and Agapaeus--the very men who are now in possession of the city--
and every one knew the fact; while a certain Euphraeus,[n] who once lived
here in Athens, acted in the interests of freedom, to save his country
from bondage. {60} To describe the insults and the contumely with which he
met would require a long story; but a year before the capture of the town
he laid an information of treason against Philistides and his party,
having perceived the nature of their plans. A number of men joined forces,
with Philip for their paymaster and director, and haled Euphraeus off to
prison as a disturber of the peace. {61} Seeing this, the democratic party
in Oreus, instead of coming to the rescue of Euphraeus, and beating the
other party to death, displayed no anger at all against them, and agreed
with a malicious pleasure that Euphraeus deserved his fate. After this the
conspirators worked with all the freedom they desired for the capture of
the city, and made arrangements for the execution of the scheme; while any
of the democratic party, who perceived what was going on, maintained a
panic-stricken silence, remembering the fate of Euphraeus. So wretched was