Histories

These two deeds had never been forgiven by the Thessalians, and now they sent a herald with this message: “Men of +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis, it is time now that you confess yourselves to be no match for us.

We were even formerly preferred to you by the Greeks, as long as we were on their side, and now we bear such weight with the foreigner that it lies in our power to have you deprived of your lands and to have you enslaved. Nevertheless, although we could easily do these things, we bear you no ill-will for the past. Pay us fifty talents of silver for what you did, and we promise to turn aside what threatens your land.”