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 27G HISTORY OF GREECE. forth with equal emphasis, in most Grecian senates or assemblies elsewhere. Very different, however, was the sentiment in Sikyon. The body of Euphron was carried thither, and enjoyed the distinguished preeminence of being buried in the market-place. 1 There, along with his tomb, a chapel was erected, in which he was worshipped as Archegetes, or Patron-hero and Second Founder, of the city. He received the same honors as had been paid to Brasidas at Am- phipolis. The humbler citizens and the slaves, upon whom he had conferred liberty and political franchise, or at least the name of a political franchise, remembered him with grateful admiration as their benefactor, forgetting or excusing the atrocities which he had wreaked upon their political opponents. Such is the retribu- tive Nemesis which always menaces, and sometimes overtakes, an oligarchy who keep the mass of the citizens excluded from politi- cal privileges. A situation is thus created, enabling some ambitious and energetic citizen to confer favors and earn popularity among the many, and thus to acquire power, which, whether employed or not for the benefit of the many, goes along with their antipathies when it humbles or crushes the previously monopolizing few. We may presume from these statements that the government of Sikyon became democratical. But the provoking brevity of Xeno- phon does not inform us of the subsequent arrangements made with the Theban harmost in the acropolis, nor how the intestine dis- sensions, between the democracy in the town and the refugees in the citadel, were composed, nor what became of those citizens who slew Euphron. We learn only that not long afterwards, the harbor of Sikyon, which Euphron had held in conjunction with the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, was left imperfectly defended by the recall of the latter to Athens ; and that it was accordingly re- taken by the forces from the town, aided by the Arcadians. 2 It appears that these proceedings of Euphron (from his first proclamation of the democracy at Sikyon and real acquisition of despotism to himself, down to his death and the recovery of the harbor) took place throughout the year 367 B. c. and the earlier half of 366 B.C. No such enemy, probably, would have arisen 1 Xcn. Hcllen. vii, 3, 12. * Xen. Hellen. vii, 4, 1