[1086] Polyænus, iv. 2, 8.
[1087] We gather this from the edict issued by Polysperchon some years afterwards (Diodor. xviii. 56).
[1088] Polyænus, iv. 2, 14.
[1089] Diodorus affirms that Philip’s army was superior in number; Justin states the reverse (Diodor. xvi. 85; Justin, ix. 3).
[1090] Pausanias, iv. 2, 82; v. 4, 5; viii. 6, 1.
[1091] Plutarch, Phokion, c. 16.
[1092] Plutarch, Demosth. c. 19, 20; Æschin. adv. Ktesiph. p. 72.
[1093] Æschin. adv. Ktesiph. p. 74, 75.
[1094] Æschines adv. Ktesiph. p. 75. Ὡς δ᾽ οὐ προσεῖχον αὐτῷ (Δημοσθένει) οἱ ἄρχοντες οἱ ἐν ταῖς Θήβαις, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας τοὺς ὑμετέρους πάλιν ἀνέστρεψαν ἐξεληλυθότας, ἵνα βουλεύσαισθε περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης, ἐνταῦθα παντάπασιν ἔκφρων ἐγένετο, etc.
It is, seemingly, this disposition on the part of Philip to open negotiations which is alluded to by Plutarch as having been (Plutarch, Phokion, c. 16) favorably received by Phokion.