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 SUCCESS OF TIKIBAZUS. 383 and the importations of merchants, became speedily a seen 3 of ani- mated commerce, as we have seen it when surprised by Teleutias. The number of metics, or free resident non-citizens, became also again large, as it had been before the time of her reverses, and including a number of miscellaneous non-Hellenic persons, from Lydia, Phrygia, and Syria. 1 Both the port-duties, and the value of fixed property at Athens, was thus augmented so as in part te countervail the costb of war. Nevertheless these costs, continued from year to year, and combined with the damage done by JEgi- netan privateers, were seriously felt, and contributed to dispose the Athenians to peace. In the Hellespont also, their prospects were not only on the de- cline, but had become seriously menacing. After going from JEgina to Ephesus in the preceding year, and sending back Gor- gopus with the jEginetan squadron, Antalkidas had placed the remainder of his fleet under his secretary, JNikolochus, with orders to proceed to the Hellespont for the relief of Abydos. He him- self landed, and repaired to Tiribazus, by whom he was conducted up to the court of Susa. Here he renewed the propositions for the pacification of Greece, on principles of universal autonomy, abandoning all the Asiatic Greeks as subject absolutely to the Per- sian king, which he had tried in vain to carry through two years before. Though the Spartans generally were odious to Artaxerxes, Antalkidas behaved with so much dexterity 2 as to gain the royal favor personally, while all the influence of Tiribazus was employed to second his political views. At length they succeeded in prevail- ing upon the king formally to adopt the peace, and to proclaim war against any Greeks who should refuse to accede to it, em- powering the Spartans to enforce it everywhere as his allies and under his sanction. In order to remove one who would have ens. Let any one follow the speech of Praxagora into the proposition of reform which she is made to submit, and he will then see the absurdity of citing her discourse as if it were an harangue in Thucydides. History is indeed strangely transformed by thus turning comic wit into serious matter of evidence ; and no history has suffered so much from the proceeding &) that of Athens. 1 Xenoph. Hellen. v. 1, 19-24; compare vii, 1, 3, 4 ; Xenoph. De Vecti galibus, chapters i, ii, iii, etc. ; Xenoph. De Repub. Athen. i. 1 7
 * Plutarch, Artaxerx. c. 22.