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 SPARTA UNPOPULAR. 223 oecuniary result or residue which Lysander had brought home with him (four hundred and seventy talents remaining out of the advances made by Cyrus), together with the booty acquired at Dekeleia, was all detained by the Lacedaemonians themselves. Thebes and Corinth indeed presented demands, in which the other allies did not (probably durst not) join, to be allowed to share. But though all the efforts and sufferings of the war had fallen upon these allies no less than upon Sparta, the demands were refused, and almost resented as insults. 1 Hence there arose among the allies not merely a fear of the grasping dominion, but a hatred of the monopolizing rapacity, of Sparta. Of this new feeling, an early manifestation, alike glaring and important, was made by the The- bans and Corinthians, when they refused to join Pausanias in his march against Thrasybulus and the Athenian exiles in Peirasus, 3 less than a year after the surrender of Athens, the enemy whom these two cities had hated with such extreme bitterness down to the very moment of surrender. Even Arcadians and Achaeans too, habitually obedient as they were to Lacedaemon, keenly felt the different way in which she treated them, as compared with the previous years of war, when she had been forced to keep alive their zeal against the common enemy. 3 The Lacedaemonians were however strong enough not merely to despise this growing alienation of their allies, but even to take revenge upon such of the Peloponnesians as had incurred their displeasure. Among these stood conspicuous the Eleians ; now under a government called democratical, of which the leading man was Thrasydscus, a man who had lent considerable aid in 404 B. c. to Thrasybulus and the Athenian exiles in Peiraeus. The Eleians, in the year 420 B. c., had been engaged in a controversy with Sparta, had employed their privileges as administrators 1 Xenoph. Hellen. iii, 5, 5 ; Plutarch, Lysand. c. 27 ; Justin, T, 10. 2 Xen. Hellen. ii, 4, 30. 3 Xen. Hellen. iii, 5, 12. Kopivfiiovf 6e KUI 'Ap/cadaf KOI J A%aiove ri 0<j- liev ; 01 kv /j.ev TW trpbf v/zaf (it is the Theban envoys who are addressing the public assembly at Athens) Tro/lf/^ fid ha hnrapovfievo i VTT' /ce. iv u v (the Lacedaemonians), TTUVTUV Kal TTOVUV Kal Kivdvvuv Kal ruv [leTelxov foel 6' lirpa!;av a eflovAovro ol Aanedaiftovioi, Troiag fj up Tififjf ri Ttoiuv xpriiiuruv fieTededunaaiv avroli; ; d/lla Toijf jisv elhuraf u ruf Kaficaravai. u^iovai, rut ?e ^vfj.fiu^uv ihsv&EpLV OVTUV, enei VTvri<jat decnrorat uv