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Maleans,’ tlie “Dolopes, the: /Enianes, the \Delphians, . and ithe 
Phocians. PAvsanias ‘enumerates only ten; the Tones, the 
Dolopes, the Theffalians, the Ainianes, the Magnetes, the Ma- 
leans, the Phthiotes;the Dores, the Phocians, the Locri, who 
bordered upon Phocis under Mount Cnemis. ‘The reafon: of 
this diverfity probably arifes from this circumftance: Some of 
the confederated ftates might affume new names, and fome — 
fates might be ftruck out of the alliance, in confequence of 
fome mifdemeanour, and others fubftituted in their room., 
Sucu was the far-famed Council of the Amphiétyones ; a tri- 
bunal which refleéts immortal honour upon Greece, and de- 
monftrates the wifdom, fagacity and political talents of the 
Hellenes, who eftablifhed fo noble and fo ufeful an inftitution. 
Happy, had it been invefted with power fufficient to check 
the ambitious enterprifes of fome of the confederated ftates, 
which formed projects for reducing the reft to a ftate of de- 
pendence and fervitude. Had its members been always anima- 
ted with a fpirit of peace, of juftice, and good order, it would 
have rendered itfelf for ever refpectable, and the affociated 
{tates under its direétion fhould never have become a prey to 
the once defpifed Macedonians. 
Srraso pretends, that the college of the Amphictyones was 
abolifhed with the Achzan league. But PAUsSANIAS.mentions 
it as exifting in his time, and as confifting of thirty conftituent 
members. Nicopolis, Macedonia, and Theflaly, fent two a-piece. 
The Beotians, Phoceans, and Delphians, fent each two mem- 
bers. One was furnifhed by the ancient diftri€t of Doris. The 
tolians, called Ozoli, and the people beyond the ftrait of Eu- 
boea, fent one member each. The Eubceans and the Athenians 
furnifhed each one delegate. 
Arrer the conqueft of Greece by the Macedonians, this 
tribunal was fhorn of its primitive luftre. AucusTus too 
made fome new regulations with refpet to the ftates which 
Voz. III. ” were 
