He then proceeded to Chalcis and withdrew the forces in occupati on not only from that city, but from Oreus and Eretria as well. Here he summoned a convention of all the cities in Euboea, and after reminding them of the condition in which he found them and the condition in which he was.leaving them, sent them back to their homes. Going on to Demetrias, he withdrew his troops from that place amidst the same enthusiasm on the of the citizens as at Corinth and Chalcis. resumed his progress into Thessaly, where the cities had to be liberated but also brought ba ck from confusion and chaos into some tolerable form of government. This state of confusion arose from the disorders of the time and the violence and lawlessness introduced by Philip, but it was due quite as much to the quarrelsome character of the people, who never conducted public proceedings of any kind, whether elections or conventions or一councils, without tumult and riot. Quinctius selected the senate and the judges mostly from the propertied classes and placed power in the hands of those whose一 interest it was to keeT) evervthing in peace and securitv.
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Philip — a candidate entry
The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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