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Excerpt from A History of Greece, Vol. 4 of 4: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary With Alexander the Great
The maximum of her second empire, which I have remarked that Athens attained by the recovery of the Chersonese, lasted but for a moment. During the very same year, there occurred that re'volt among his principal allies, known by the name of the Social War, which gave to her power a fatal shock, and left the field compara tively clear for the early aggressions of her yet more formidable enemy' - Philip of Macedon. That prince had already emerged from his obscurity as a hostage in Thebes, and had succeeded his brother Perdikkas slain in a battle with the Illyrians, as king (360 - 359 B. At first, 1118 situation appeared not merely difficult, but almost hope less. Not the most prescient eye in Greece could have recognized, in the inexperienced youth struggling at his first accession against rivals at home, enemies abroad, and embarrassments o] every kind - the future conqueror of Chaeroneia, and destroyer of Grecian independ ence. How, by his own genius, energy, and perseverance assisted by the faults and dissensions of his Grecian enemies, he attalned this inauspicious eminence - will be recounted presently.
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