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 SUCCESSES OF IPHIKRATES. 353 he marched back to Sparta. But the circumstances of the march betrayed his real feelings, thinly disguised by the recent bravado ef inarching up to the gates of Corinth. He feared to expose his Lacedaemonian troops even to the view of those allies through whose territory he was to pass ; so well was he aware that the latter (especially the Hantineians) would manifest their satisfac- tion at the recent defeat. Accordingly, he commenced his day's inarch before dawn, and did not halt for the night till after dark ; at Mantineia, he not only did not halt at all, but passed by, outside of the walls, before day had broken. 1 There cannot be a more convincing proof of the real dispositions of the allies towards Sparta, and of the sentiment of compulsion which dictated their continued adherence ; a fact which we shall see abundantly illus- trated as we advance in the stream of the history. The retirement of Agesilaus was the signal for renewed enter- prise on the part of Iphikrates ; who retook Sidus and Krommyon, which had been garrisoned by Praxitas, as well as Peiraum and CEnoe, which had been left under occupation by Agesilaus. Co- rinth was thus cleared of enemies on its eastern and north-eastern sides. And though the Lacedaemonians still carried on a desultory warfare from Lechaeum, yet such was the terror impressed by the late destruction of their mora, that the Corinthian exiles at Siky- on did not venture to march by land from that place to Lechaeum, under the walls of Corinth, but communicated with Lechaeum only by sea. 2 In truth, we hear of no farther serious military operations undertaken by Sparta against Corinth, before the peace of Antalkidas. And the place became so secure, that the Corin- thian leaders and their Argeian allies were glad to dispense with the presence of Iphikrates. That officer had gamed so much glory by his recent successes, which the Athenian orators 3 even in the next generation never ceased to extol, that his temper, natural- ly haughty, became domineering ; and he tried to procure, either for Athens or for himself, the mastery of Corinth, putting to death some of the philo- Argeian leaders. We know these cir- cumstances only by brief and meagre allusion ; but they caused 1 Xen. Hellen. iv, 5, 16. 2 Xen. Hcllen. iv, 5, 19 3 Demosthenes irepi Zwrufewf 3. 8, p. 172. VOL. ix. 23oc.