the AMPHICrrONES. 161 



Maleans, the Dolopes, the ^Enianes, the Delphians, and the 

 Phocians. Pausanias enumerates only ten ; the Iones, the 

 Dolopes, the ThefTalians, the iEnianes, 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 flates might afTume new names, and fome 

 ftates might be flruck out of the alliance, in confequence of 

 fome mifdemeanour, and others fubftituted in their room. 



Such was the fan-famed Council of the Amphiclyones ; a tri- 

 bunal which reflects immortal honour upon Greece, and de- 

 monftrates the wifdom, fagacity and political talents of the 

 Hellenes, who eftablifhed fo noble and fo ufefui an inflitution. 

 Happy, had it been inverted 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 afTociated 

 ftates under its direction fhould never have become a prey to 

 the once defpifed Macedonians. 



Strabo pretends, that the college of the Amphiclyones was 

 abolifhed with the Achaean league. But Pausanias mentions 

 it as exifting in his time, and as confiding of thirty conflituent 

 members. Nicopolis, Macedonia, and ThefTaly, fent two a-piece. 

 The BEeotians, Phoceans, and Delphians, fent each two mem- 

 bers. One was furniftied by the ancient diflrict of Doris. The 

 iEtolians, called Ozoli, and the people beyond the ftrait of Eu- 

 bcea, fent one member each. The Eubceans and the Athenians 

 furnilhed each one delegate. 



After the conqueft of Greece by the Macedonians, this 



tribunal was fhorn of its primitive luflre. Augustus too 



made fome new regulations with refpect to the ftates which 



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