[94] Orchomenus was destroyed by the Thebans B.C. 364. See _Diod._, xv. 79; Demosthenes (_Contra Leptinem_, p. 489). It was restored by Philip, according to _Pausanias_, iv. 27. [95] The Great Mysteries of Demeter were celebrated at Eleusis, from the 15th to the 23rd of the month Boedromion, our September. [96] All these nine men were orators except Chares, Charidemus, and Ephialtes, who were military men. Plutarch (_Life of Demosthenes_, 23) does not mention Chares, Diotimus, and Hyperides, but puts the names of Callisthenes and Damon in the list. [97] See Aeschines (_Adversus Ctesiphontem_, pp. 469, 547, 551, 603, 633); Plutarch (_Demosthenes_, 22; _Phocion_, 16); _Diodorus_, xvii. 5. [98] At the head of this embassy was Phocion. [99] He was put to death by Darius shortly before the battle of Issus, for advising him not to rely on his Asiatic troops in the contest with Alexander, but to subsidize an army of Grecian mercenaries. See _Curtius_, iii. 5; _Diodorus_, xvii. 30. [100] Archelaüs was king of Macedonia from B.C. 413-399. He improved the internal arrangements of his kingdom, and patronised art and literature. He induced the tragic poets, Euripides and Agathon, as well as the epic poet Choerilus, to visit him; and treated Euripides especially with favour. He also invited Socrates, who declined the invitation. [101] Aegae, or Edessa, was the earlier capital of Macedonia, and the burial place of its kings. Philip was murdered here, B.C. 336. [102] A narrow strip of land in Macedonia, between the mouths of the Haliacmon and Penēus, the reputed home of Orpheus and the Muses. [103] Cf. _Apollonius Rhodius_, iv. 1284; _Livy_, xxii. i. [104] This man was the most noted soothsayer of his time. Telmissus was a city of Caria, celebrated for the skill of its inhabitants in divination. Cf. Arrian (_Anab._ i. 25, ii. 18, iii. 2, iii. 7, iii. 15, iv. 4, iv. 15); _Herodotus_, i. 78; and Cicero (_De Divinatione_, i. 41). [105] _Diodorus_ (xvii. 17) says that there were 30,000 infantry and 4,500 cavalry. He gives the numbers in the different brigades as well as the names of the commanders. Plutarch (_Life of Alexander_, 15) says that the lowest numbers recorded were 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry; and the highest, 34,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry. [106] This lake is near the mouth of the Strymon. It is called Prasias by _Herodotus_ (v. 16). Its present name is Tak-hyno. [107] This mountain is now called Pirnari. Xerxes took the same route when marching into Greece. See _Herodotus_, v. 16, vii. 112; Aeschўlus (_Persae_, 494); Euripides (_Rhesus_, 922, 972). [108] Now called Maritza. See _Theocritus_, vii. 110. [109] Cf. Homer (_Iliad_, ii. 701); Ovid (_Epistolae Heroidum_, xiii. 93); _Herodotus_ (ix. 116). [110] The Athenians supplied twenty ships of war. See _Diodorus_, xvii. 22. [111] A landing-place in the north-west of Troas, near Cape Sigaeum. [112] Cf. _Diodorus_, xvii. 17; _Justin_, xi. 5.