He warned again of foreign subversion, citing the intervention of Philip of Macedon. “By his intrigues and bribes he won over to his interests the popular leaders of several cities; by their influence and votes, gained admission into the Amphyctionic council; and by his arts and his arms, made himself master of the confederacy.” The lesson of this history, he concluded, is that “it emphatically illustrates the tendency of federal bodies, rather to anarchy among the members than to tyranny in the head.”
