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 262 HISTORY OF GREECE. promised as an incentive to revolt against Athens, a Spartan em pire had been constituted in place of the extinct Athenian, with a tribute, amounting to a thousand talents annually, intended to be assessed upon the component cities and islands. 1 Such at least was the scheme of Lysander, though it never reached complete execution. It is easy to see that under such a state of feeling on the part of the allies of Sparta, the enormities perpetrated by the Thirty at Athens and by the Lysandrian dekadarchies in the other cities, would be heard with sympathy for the sufferers, and without that slrong anti- Athenian sentiment which had reigned a few months before. But what was of still greater importance, even at Sparta itself, opposition began to spring up against the measures and the person of Lysander. If the leading men at Sparta had felt jeal- ous even of Brasidas, who offended them only by unparalleled success and merit as a commander, 2 much more would the same feeling be aroused against Lysander, who displayed an overween- ing insolence, and was worshipped with an ostentatious flattery. not inferior to that of Pausanias after the battle of Plataea. An- other Pausanias, son of Pleistoanax, was now king of Sparta, in conjunction with Agis. Upon him the feeling of jealousy against Lysander told with especial force, as it did afterwards upon Age- silaus, the successor of Agis ; not unaccompanied probably with suspicion, which subsequent events justified, that Lysander was aiming at some interference with the regal privileges. Nor is it unfair to suppose that Pausanias was animated by motives more patriotic than mere jealousy, and that the rapacious cruelty, which everywhere dishonored the new oligarchies, both shocked his better feelings and inspired him with fears for the stability of the system. A farther circumstance which weakened the influence aot, ufia 6e Idiaf TroifjaoiTO rif 'Atfiypctf, irelffaf ruv 'E6puv Tpetf, e^uyei Qpovpdv. ^vve'nrovTO 6e not ol ^vpfiaxoi iruvref, irArjv BOIUTUV not Kopiv&iuv. OVTOI <T eAeyov fisv OTI ov vofil^oiev Evop/telv uv a-parevoue- VOL ETr 1 ' A-dyvaiovf, fiTjfiev irapaairovdov Trotovvraf etc parrov 6t r avra, OTI kyiyvuvKOv Aa K e 6 ai poviovf ftov^ofievovf rijv TUT, 'A."S"rivaiuv x.upav ointiav Kal iriaTrjv iroitjaaa&ai. Com- pare also iii, 5, 12, 13, respecting the sentiments entertained in Greece about the conduct of the Lacedaemonians. 'Diodor. xiv, 10-13. * Thucvd. iv