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The members of the Council then passed a decree admitting Philip and his descendants to the Amphictyonic Council and according him two votes which formerly had been held by the Phocians,1 now defeated in war. They also voted that the three cities2 in the possession of the Phocians should have their walls removed and that the Phocians should have no participation in the shrine of Delphi or in the Council of the Amphictyons; that they should not be permitted to acquire either horses or arms until they should have repaid to the god the monies they had pillaged; that those of the Phocians who had fled and any others who had had a share in robbing the sanctuary were to be under a curse and subject to arrest wherever they might be;

1 For the reorganization of the votes in the Amphictyonic League see P.-W. Realencyclopädie, 4.2681 ff., and Beloch, Griechische Geschichte (2), 3.1.512, note 4; and Pickard-Cambridge, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.241.

2 These seem to be the three Boeotian cities in the hands of the Phocians (cp. chaps. 56.2 and 58.1). The MSS. read "in the land of the Phocians" which is inconsistent with section 2 below and other accounts (e.g. Dem. 19.325, where two of the towns mentioned, Orchomenus and Coroneia, are said to have been enslaved). (Cp. also Paus, 10.3.)

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