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 188 fflSTORY OF GREECE. companions ; l and it is a considerable proof of the restraining force of Athenian manners, that men who inflicted so much evil in grati- fication of other violent impulses, should have stopped short here. The decemvirs named by Lysander, like the decemvir Appius Claudius at Rome, would find themselves armed with power t satiate their lusts as well as their antipathies, and would not be more likely to set bounds to the former than to the latter. Lysan- der, in all the overweening insolence of victory, while rewarding his most devoted partisans with an exaltation comprising every sort of license and tyranny, stained the dependent cities with countless murders, perpetrated on private as well as on public grounds. 2 No individual Greek had ever before wielded so pro- digious a power of enriching friends or destroying enemies, in this universal reorganization of Greece; 3 nor was there ever any power more deplorably abused. It was thus that the Lacedaemonian empire imposed upon each of the subject cities a double oppression ; 4 the native decemvirs, and the foreign hannost ; each abetting the other, and forming together an aggravated pressure upon the citizens, from which scarce any escape was left. The Thirty at Athens paid the great- est possible court to the harmost Kalh'bius, 5 and put to death $t>yaf 6e Kai ardaeif Kal vopuv avy^iicetf KOI iro'XiTeiuv jUera/Jo^la?, I T i 6k iratiuv vftpstf Kal yvvaiKuv aia^vvaf Kal xpijjtaTuv apTrayaf, rtf av dvvatro iiet-el.&Eiv ; irTJ^v TOCFOVTOV e'nrelv c^u /ta$' UTT- OVTUV, 6rc TO. fisv if ijfiuv Seivu. paiiuf uv rtf h>l ifirjQiffpaTi diehvae, ruf 6e effayuf Kal raf avoftiaf raf iirl TOVTUV yevopevac ovielg uv luaaodai 6v- VOITO. See also, of the same author, Isokrates, Orat. v, (Philipp.) s. 110 ; Orat vui, (de Pace) s. 119-124 ; Or. xii, (Panath.) s. 58, 60, 106. 1 We may infer that if Xenophon had heard anything of the sort re- specting Kritias, he would hardly have been averse to mention it ; when we read what he says (Memorah. i, 2, 29.) Compare a curious passage about Kritias in Dion. Chrysostom. Or. sxi, p. 270. $6vog aim upi&firjTbs, UTE drj [JLTJ /car' ISiaf povov airiaf aiirov Kreivovrof, u'/.Ati iro^XaZf fiev e%&paif, iroX^.aZf de TrXeove^iaif, TUV ^/catrra^oi9j (ji'duv xapifr/t- ivov Ta TotavTa Kal avvepyovvTOf ; also Paujanias, vii, 10, 1 ; ix, 32, 6. 4 See the speech of the Theban envoys at Athens r about eight years aftai the surrender of Athens (Xen. Hcllen. iii, 5, 13). . .. Oi6e yup Qvyelv k^v (Plutarch, Lysand. C. 19).
 * Plutarch Lysand. c. 19. T Hv 6e Kal TUV aXlav h> Tale noAeai drjporiKuv
 * Plutarch, Agesilans, c, 7.
 * Xen. Hellen. ii, 3. 13.