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 CHANGE OF ATHENIAN POLICE. 137 the Phokians to Sparta, King Kleombrotus was sent to their aid, by sea across the Gulf, with four Lacedaemonian divisions of troops, and an auxiliary body of allies. 1 This reinforcement, com- pelling the Thebans to retire, placed both Phokis and Orchomenus in safety. While Sparta thus sustained them, even Athens looked upon the Phokian cause with sympathy. When she saw that the Thebans had passed from the defensive to the offensive, partly by her help, yet nevertheless refusing to contribute to the cost of her navy, her ancient jealousy of them became again so power- ful, that she sent envoys to Sparta, tc propose terms of peace. What these terms were, we are not told ; nor does it appear that the Thebans even received notice of the proceeding. But the peace was accepted at Sparta, and two of the Athenian envoys were despatched at once from thence, without even going home, to Korkyra, for the purpose of notifying the peace to Timotheus, and ordering him forthwith to conduct his fleet back to Athens. 2 This proposition of the Athenians, made seemingly in a moment of impetuous dissatisfaction, was made to the advantage of Sparta, 1 Xen. Hellen. vi, 1, 1 ; vi, 21. This expedition of Kleombrotus to Phokis is placed by Mr. Fynes Clin- ton in 375 B. c. (Fast. Hel. ad 375 B. c.). To me it seems to belong rather to 374 B. c. It was not undertaken until the Thebans had reconquered all the Ba'otian cities (Xen. Hell, vi, 1, 1) ; and this operation seems to have occupied them all the two years, 376 and 375 B.C. See v, 4, 63, where the words OVT' h $ Ttfio&eof Kepte-irA-evae must be understood to include, not simply the time which Timotheus took in actually circumnavigating Pelo- ponnesus, but the year which he spent afterwards in the Ionian Sea, and the time which he occupied in performing his exploits near Korkyra, Leu kas, and the neighborhood generally. The " Periplus " for which Timo theus was afterwards honored at Athens (see JEschines cont. Ktesiphont. c. 90, p. 458) meant the exploits performed by him during the year and with the fleet of the "Periplus." It is worth notice that the Pythian games were celebrated in this year 374 B. c., tnl Swpari<5oi) apxovroQ ; that is, in the first quarter of that arch on, or the third Olympic year; about the beginning of August, Cha- brias won a prize at these games with a chariot and four; in celebration of which, he afterwards gave a splendid banquet at the point of sea-shore called Kolias, near Athens (Demosthen. cont. Neasram. c. 11, p. 1356). Kallias seems to have been one of the Athenian envoys (Xen. Hellen. H, 1.4).
 * Xen. Hellen. vi, 2, 1,2.