[863] The gold and silver mines at Mount Pangaeon near Philippi brought Philip a yearly revenue of more than 1,000 talents (Diodorus, xvi. 8). Herodotus (v. 17) says that the silver mines at Mount Dysorum brought a talent every day to Alexander, father of Amyntas.
[864] This is a Demosthenic expression. See De Falsa Legatione, 92; and I. Philippic, 45.
[865] B.C. 346.
[866] He here refers to his own part in the victory of Chaeronea, B.C. 336. See Diodorus, xvi. 86; Plutarch (Alex. 9).
[867] This fact is attested by Demosthenes (De Haloneso, 12).
[868] The Thebans under Pelopidas settled the affairs of Macedonia, and took young Philip to Thebes as a hostage, B.C. 368.
[869] About £122,000. Cf. Plutarch (Alex. 15); Curtius, x. 10.
[870] Ἴων is the Hebrew Javan without the vowel points. In the Persian name for the Greeks Ἰάονες, one of these vowels appear. See Aeschўlus (Persae, 178, 562).
[871] Larger Phrygia formed the western part of the great central table-land of Asia Minor. Smaller Phrygia was also called Hellespontine Phrygia, because it lay near the Hellespont. See Strabo, xii. 8.
[872] A blue band worked with white, which went round the tiara of the Persian kings.