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 334 mSTOEY OF GREECE. taken by the Athenians from the Ozolian Lokrians,i — where they will be found rendering good service to Athens in the fol- lowing wars. After the victory of Tanagra, the Lacedaemonians made no farther expeditions out of Peloponnesus for several succeeding years, not even to prevent Boeotia and Phocis from being absorbed into the Athenian alliance. The reason of this remissness lay, partly, in their general character ; partly, in the continuance of the siege of Ithome, which occupied them at home ; but still more, pei'haps, in the fact that the Athenians, masters of the Megarid, were in occupation of the road over the highlands of Geraneia, and could therefore obstruct the march of any army out from Peloponnesus. Even after the surrender of Ithome, the Lacedtemonians remained inactive for three years, after which time a foi-mal truce was concluded with Athens by the Pelopon- nesians generally, for five years longer.^ This truce was con- cluded in a great degree through the influence of Kimon,3 who was eager to resume effective operations against the Persians ; while it was not less suitable to the pohtical interests of Perikles ' Thucyd. i, 103 ; Diodor. xi, 84. ^ Thucyd i, 112. ^ Theopompus, Fragm. 92, ed. Didot ; Plutarch, Kimon, c. 18 ; Diodor. xi, 86. It is to be presumed that this is the peace -which jEschines (De Fals. Legat. c. 54, p. 300) and Andokides or the Pseudo-Andokides (De Pace, c. 1), state to have been made by Miltiades, son of liimon, proxenus of the LacedjEmonians ; assuming that Miltiades son of Kimon is put by them, through lapse of memory, for Kimon son of Miltiades. But the pas- sages of these orators involve so much both of historical and chronological inaccuracy, that it is unsafe to cite them, and impossible to amend them except by conjecture. Mr. Fynes Clinton (Fasti Hellen. Appendix, 8, p. 257) has pointed out some of these inaccuracies ; and there are others be- sides, not less grave, especially in the oration ascribed to Andokides. It is remarkable that both of them seem to recognize only two long walls, the northern and the southern wall ; whereas, in the time of Thucydides, there were three long walls : the two near and parallel, connecting Athens with Peirffius, and a third connecting it with Phalerum. This last was never re- newed, after all of them had been partially destroyed at the disastrous close of the Peloponnesian war : and it appears to have passed out of the recol- lection of JEschines, who speaks of the two walls as they existed in his time. I concur with the various ci'itics who pronounce the oration ascribed to Andokides to be spurious.