Philippus
4. A Theban, was one of the members of the oligarchical government established at Thebes after the seizure of the Cadmeia by Phoebidas in B. C. 382. In B. C. 379, on the night when Pelopidas and his fellow-exiles carried their enterprise for the Archias were slain by the conspirators at a banquet at the house of Phyllidas. (
Xen. Hell. 5.4. §§ 2, &c.; comp.
Plut. Pel. 9, &c.
de Gen. Soc. 24, 26, 29, 32.)
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