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 I HISTORY OF GREECE. Pan-hellenic patriots it was the deepest disgrace and insult. 1 Ef- facing altogether the idea of an independent Hellenic world, bound together and regulated by the self-acting forces and common sym- pathies of its own members, even the words of the convention proclaimed it as an act of intrusive foreign power, and erected the barbarian king into a dictatorial settler of Grecian differences ; a guardian 2 who cared for the peace of Greece more than the Greeks themselves. And thus, looking to the form alone, it Avas tantamount to that symbol of submission the cession of earth and water which had been demanded a century before by the ancestor of Artaxerxes from the ancestors of the Spartans and Athenians ; a demand, which both Sparta and Athens then not only repudiated, but resented so cruelly, as to put to death the heralds by whom it was brought, stigmatizing the .ZEginetans and others as traitors to Hellas for complying with it. 3 Yet noth- ing more would have been implied in such cession than what stood embodied in the inscription on that " colonna infame," which 1 Isokrat. Or. iv, (Panegyr.) s. 207. 'A XP^I V avaipslv, icai fM]de[iiav ear 37/'/3av, vofJiL^ovTSf, KpoaTuy/taTa Kal ov avvdijuag elvai, etc. (s. 213). Aloxpbv THJ,U$ 6/l^f r^f 'EA/ladof v/3pi ope vrj(, ftijdepiav voiT]ca avTovopovf raf Tro/letf elvat, etc. (Xen. Hellen. vi, 3, 9). 2 Isokrat. Or. iv, (Panegyr.) s. 205. Kairoi TTW? ov xpi) AiaMsiv ravrai uv TOIO.VTJJV <56fa jEyovev, &GTE 6 aev Bap/3apof Kr^eTUi T?jf -7/f Eiprjvrji; EGTIV, j/ftuv <5e nvef eiaiv ol "^vftaivofiKvoi nal .VTTJV ; The word employed by Photius in his abstract of Theopompus (whether it be the expression of Theopompus himself, we cannot be certain sec Fragm. Ill, ed. Didot), to designate the position taken by Artaxerxes in reference to this peace, is TTJV ipf]V7]v fjv TOIC "EMrjacv EfipuBsvaev which implies the peremptory decision of an official judge, analogous to another passage (139) of the Panegyr. Orat. of Isokrates NCv 6' sicelvof I Artaxerxes) EOTIV, 6 SIOIKUV TO. TUV 'EAA^wv Kal fidvov OVK iKiaTd&fiovf ^v raif TroAeffi Ka&toTuf. Hhtjii yap TOVTOV TL ruv uAAwv viro&onrov EVTIV ; Oi Kal TOV TroTt-f/^ov Kvpioe EJEVETO, Kal r TJV-. EipTjvqv ETI pvTaveva e, Kal TUV napovruv Trpayp.u.Tuv ciriaruTiif Kn-9eari]KEv; 3 Herodot. vi, 49. 'caTtjyopeov kiyivijTevv TU irEirotfjKOiev, TTpodui rff r^ "E/l/(5a.