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 256 HISTORY OB GREECE walls, in order that they might be undisturbed uasters wLiiin the city, a policy before resorted to by Periander of Corinth ana other Grecian despots. 1 The numerous fugitives expelled by this order, distributed themselves partly in Peirasus, partly in the various demes of Attica. Both in one and the other, how- ever, they were seized by order of the Thirty, and many of them put to death, in order that their substance and lands might be appropriated either by the Thirty themselves, or by some favored partisan. 2 The denunciations of Batractus, JEschylides, and other delators, became more numerous than ever, in order to obtain the seizure and execution of their private enemies ; and the oligarchy were willing to purchase any new adherent by thus gratifying his antipathies or his rapacity. 3 The subsequent orators affirmed that more than fifteen hundred victims were put to death without trial by the Thirty ; 4 on this numerical estimate little stress is to be laid, but the total was doubtless prodigious. It became more and more plain that no man was safe in Attica ; so that Athenian emigrants, many in great poverty and destitution, were multiplied throughout the neighboring terri- tories, in Megara, Thebes, Oropus, Chalkis, Argos, etc. 5 It was not everywhere that these distressed persons could obtain reception ; for the Lacedaemonian government, at the instance of the Thirty, issued an edict prohibiting all the members of their confederacy from harboring fugitive Athenians ; an edict which these cities generously disobeyed, 6 though probably the smaller Peloponnesian cities complied. Without doubt, this decree was 1 Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 4, 1 ; Lysias, Orat. xii, cont. Eratosth. s. 97; Orat. txxi, cont. Philon. s. 8, 9 ; Herakleid. Pontic. c. 5 ; Diogen. Laert. i, 98. TOVTUV dypoi)f E^OCEV evy6vTuv 6e if rbv Tieipala, Kal tvTev-dev 7ro.1/lot!{ uyovrtf eveirl.ijaav Meyapa /cat 0#/?af TUV VTroxupoiivruv. 3 Lysias, Or. xii, cont. Eratosth. s. 49 ; Or. xxv, Democrat. Subvers Apolog. s. 20 ; Or. xxvi, cont. Evandr. s. 23. 4 jEschines, Fals. Legal c. 24, p. 266, and cont. Ktcsiph. c. 86, p. 455 Isokrates, Or. iv, Panegyr. a. 131 ; Or. vii, Areopag s. 76. 6 Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 4, 1 ; Diodor. xiv, 6 ; Lysias, Or. xxiv, s. 28 ; Of xxxi, cont. Philon. s. 10. 9 Lysias, Or. xii. cont Eratosth. sects. 93, 99 : iravraxo&ev tKni)pvTT6(.tvoi Plutarch, Lysand. c. 09 : Diodor xiv, Demosth. de Rhod. Libert, c. 10.
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