THE warre still continuing betweene the Phocians, and the Associates of the holy warre, the Boeotians, finding themselues vnable to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 without some present aide, sent vnto Philip for succour, who willingly yeelded to their necessities, and sent them such a proportion of men, as were neither sufficient to master 〈◊〉〈◊〉 enemies, nor to assure them∣selues; but yet to inable them to continue the warre, and to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of [unspec 30] Greece. They also sent to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Ochus for supply of treasure, who lent them thirtie talents, which makes a hundred & fourescore thousand Crownes: but when with these supplies they had still the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in all their attempts against the Phocians, who held from them three of their strongest Cities within Boeotia it selfe, They then besought Philip of Macedon that he would assist them in person, to whom they would giue an entrance into their Territorie, and in all things obey his Commandements in that Warre.
Now had Philip what he longed for; for he knew himselfe in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to giue the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to both, and so quitting all his other purposes towards the North, he marched with a speedie pace towards 〈◊〉〈◊〉, where being arriued, Phallecus who commanded the [unspec 40] Phocian Armie, fearing to shock with this victorious King, made his owne peace, and withdrew himselfe with a Regiment of eight thousand Souldiers into Peloponnesus, leauing the Phocians to the mercie of the Conquerour, and for conclusion he had the glorie of that warre called Sacred, which the Graecians with so many mutuall slaugh∣ters had 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for ten yeeres, and, besides the glorie, hee possest himselfe of Or∣chomene, Coronea and Corsia, in the Countrie of the Boeotians, who inuited him to bee victorious ouer themselues. Hee brought the Phocians into seruitude, and wasted their Cities, and gaue them but their Villages to inhabite, reseruing to himselfe the yeerely tribute of threescore talents, which make sixe and thirtie thousand French Crownes. He also hereby (besides the fame of pietie for seruice of the Gods) obtai∣ned [unspec 50] the same double voice in the Councell of the Amphyctiones, which the Phocians had, with the superintendencie of the Pythian games, forfeited by the Corinthians, by being partakers in the Phocian sacriledge.