The Macedonians were followed.at the instance of ,use they }eycomplained. There were certain rights of war which could 二justly exercise( and therefore must be 1 ustty su omitted to;the .ying off use who and divine. that in s he made impious war upon the infernal deit ies, and in his subsequent ones he defied the powers above. All the sepulchres and monuments within their borders were destroyed, the dead in all their graves laid bare, their bones no longer covered by the earth. There were shrines which their ancestors. in the day. when they dwelt in separate demes had consecrated in their little tortitied posts and villages, and which even when they had been enrolled as citizens of one city they did not abandon or n ect. All these tem.昨S.Philip eslfla had enveloped in sacrilegious mes the images of zneir gods. blackened, burnt, mutilated, were lying among the prostrate pillars of their temples. what he had made the land of Attica, once so fair in its beauty and its wealth, such, if he were allowed, would he make Aetolia and the whole of Greece. Even Athens itself would have’been simi.larly disfigured if the Rom come to the rescue, for the same impious rage was to attack the gods tress of the citadel, .erva of the Piraeus. But he had been repulsed by force of arms, not only from their temples, but even from the walls of the city, and had turned his savage fury again st those shrines whose sanctity was their only protection. They closed with an earnest appeal to the Aetolians that they would out of compassion to the Athenians take part in the war, under the leadership of the immo rtal gods and of the Romans who next to the gods possessed the greatest power and might.