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 250 HISTORY OF GREECE. be allowed to share; and if the other allies abstained from openly backing the demand, we may fairly presume that it was not from any different construction of the equity of the case, but from fear of offending Sparta. In the testimonial erected by Lysander at Delphi, commemorative of the triumph, he had included not only his own brazen statue, but that of each com mander of the allied contingents ; thus formally admitting the allies to share in the honorary results, and tacitly sanctioning their claim to the lucrative results also. Nevertheless, the demand made by the Thebans and Corinthians was not only repelled, but almost resented as an insult ; especially by Lysander, whose influence was at that moment almost omnipotent. 1 That the Lacedemonians should have withheld from the allies a share in this money, demonstrates still more the great ascendency of Lysander ; because there was a considerable party at Sparta itself, who protested altogether against the reception of so much gold and silver, as contrary to the ordinances of Lykurgus, and fatal to the peculiar morality of Sparta. An ancient Spartan, Skiraphidas, or Phlogidas, took the lead in calling for exclusive adherence to the old Spartan money, heavy iron, difficult to car- ry ; nor was it without difficulty that Lysander and his friends obtained admission for the treasure into Sparta ; under special proviso, that it should be for the exclusive purposes of the govern- ment, and that no private citizen should ever circulate gold or silver. 2 The existence of such traditionary repugnance among the Spartans would have seemed likely to induce them to be just towards their allies, since an equitable distribution of the treasure would have gone far to remove the difficulty ; yet they neverthe- less kept it all. 1 Justin (vi. 10) mentions the demand thus made and refused. Plutarch (Lysand. c. 27) states the demand as having been made by the Thebans alone, which I disbelieve. Xenophon, according to the general disorderly arrangement of facts in his Hellenika, does not mention the circumstance in its proper place, but alludes to it on a subsequent occasion as having before occurred (Hellen. iii, 5, 5). He also specifies by name no one but the Thebans as having actually made the demand; but there is a subsequent passage, which shows that not only the Corinthian?, but other allies aha- sympathized in it (iii, 5, 12). J Plutarch, Lysand. c. 17 ; Plutarch, Institut Lacon. p. 239