When he entered the council-chamber, the king first accused him in a few words and was followed by Polycrates who had lately arrived from <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cyprus&groupId=119&placeId=356">Cyprus</a>, and last by Aristomenes.
The accusations brought by all were similar to those I have just stated, but in addition they mentioned his conferences with his friends and his refusal to obey the royal summons.
He was condemned for these various reasons not only by the council but by those foreign ambassadors who were present.
Aristomenes also, when about to impeach him, brought with him besides many other men of distinction from Greece, the Aetolian envoys also who had come to make peace, one of whom was Dorimachus, son of Nicostratus.
The speeches of the accusers over, Scopas, speaking in his turn, attempted to offer some defence, but as no one paid any heed to him owing to the confusion of the circumstances he was at once led of to prison with his friends.
Aristomenes after nightfall killed Scopas and all his friends by poison, but before killing Dicaearchus he had him racked and scourged, thus punishing him as he deserved and on behalf of all the Greeks.
For this Dicaearchus was the man whom Philip, when he decided on treacherously attacking the Cyclades and the cities on the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Hellespont&groupId=620&placeId=1141">Hellespont</a>, appointed to take command of all his flight and direct the whole operation.
Being thus sent forth on an evidently impious mission, he not only did not consider himself to be guilty of any exceptional wickedness, but by the excess of his insolence thought to terrify both gods and men:
for wherever he anchored his ships he constructed two altars, one of Impiety and the other of Lawlessness, and on these he sacrificed and worshipped these powers as if they were divine.
He therefore must be pronounced to have suffered the punishment he deserved at the hands of gods and men alike; for having regulated his life by unnatural principles he met likewise with no natural death.
other Aetolians who wished to leave for home, were all allowed by the king to depart with their property.
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