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 CONSTITUTION OF DEMONAX NOT DURABLE. & Barka, figure among the tributaries and auxiliaries of Xerxes in his expedition against Greece. And when the array returned to pjgypt, by order of Aryandes, they were half inclined to seize Kyrene itself in their way, though the opportunity was missed jind the purpose left unaccomplished. 1 Pheretime accompanied the retreating army to Egypt, where she died shortly of a loathsome disease, consumed by worms ; thus showing, says Herodotus,'-* that " excessive cruelty in re- venge brings down upon men the displeasure of the gods." It will be recollected that in the veins of this savage woman the Libyan blood was intermixed with the Grecian. Political en- mity in Greece proper kills, but seldom if ever mutilates or sheds the blood, of women. We thus leave Kyrene and Barka again subject to Battiad princes, at the same time that they are tributaries of Persia. Another Battus and another Arkesilaus have to intervene before Ihe glass of this worthless dynasty is run out, between 460-450 B.C. I shall not at present carry the reader's attention to this last Arkesilaus, who stands honored by two chariot victories in Greece, and two fine odes of Pindar. The victory of the third Arkesilaus, and the restoration of the Battiads, broke up the equitable constitution established by De- monax. His triple classification into tribes must have been completely remodelled, though we do not know how. For the number of new colonists whom Arkesilaus introduced must have necessitated a fresh distribution of land, and it is extremely doubtful whether the relation of the Theraean class of citizens with their Periceki, as established by Demonax, still continued to subsist. It is necessary to notice this fact, because the ar- rangements of Demonax are spoken of by some authors as if hey formed the permanent constitution of Kyrene; whereas jan they even have been revived after that dynasty was finally expelled, since the number of new citizens and the large change of property, introduced by Arkesilaus the Third, would render hem inapplicable to the subsequent city. 1 Hcrodot. iv, 203-204. 2 Hcrodot. iv. 205. V OL. iv. 3 4oc.
 * hey cannot have outlived the restoration of the Battiads, nor