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 16 HISTORY GREECE. receiving little extraneous encoi .'agement, became more ana more subordinate to the Phoenician. It was somewhere about this time that the reigning princes of Salamis, who at the time of th ; Ionic revolt had been Greeks of the Teukrid Gens, 1 were supplanted and dethroned by a Phoeni- cian exile who gained their confidence and made himself despot in their place. 2 To insure his own sceptre, this usurper did every- thing in his power to multiply and strengthen the Phoenician pop- ulation, as well as to discourage and degrade the Hellenic. The same policy was not only continued by his successor at Salamis, but seems also to have been imitated in several of the other towns ; insomuch that during most part of the Peloponnesian war, Cyprus became sensibly dis-hellenized. The Greeks in the island were harshly oppressed ; new Greek visitors and merchants were kept off by the most repulsive treatment, as well as by threats of those cruel mutilations of the body which were habitually employed as penalties by the Orientals ; while Grecian arts, education, music, poetry, and intelligence, were rapidly on the decline. 3

1 One of these princes, however, is mentioned as bearing the Phoenician name of Siromus (Herod, v, 104). 2 We may gather this by putting together Herodot. iv, 162; v, 104-114 , with Isokrates, Or. ix, (Evagoras) s. 22. 3 Isokrates, Or. ix, (Evag.) s. 23. 55, 58. Tlapa?(,a/3uv -yap (Evagoras) TI/V ir67i.iv KKiisfiapftapufj.evjjv^ Kal dt T-IJV TUV QoiVLKuv upxqv OVTB rove E/Wj7t>af TrpoadexopEVTiv, ovre Te%va( LTuaTa/j.vrjv, ovT 1 tfiiropli^ %pu[j.EV7jv, ovre 2,'tfj.Eva KEKTrjftEVjjv, etc. Hptv fisv yap Tiafielv Eiayopav Tr]v up%r)v, ovrug uTrpoomcrwf KOI ^o/le7rwf ci%ov, wore Kal TUV u.p%6vTuv rovrovg ivopifrv slvai fitkriGTOvq ol nvef ufj.6Ta.Ta npbf rot> E/l/l??vaf 6iaKeifj.evoi Tvy^uvoiev, etc. This last passage receives remarkable illustration from the oration of Lysias against Andokides, in which he alludes to the visit of the latter to Cyprus (isTil 6s TOVTO eirfavaev wf TOV K.ITUUV /foffi^ca, KOI irpoSidovt %.TJ&EIC IITT' avTov eded)), nal oi> ftovov TOV ddvaTov ttyoflelTO aX /Id ra /cai9-' fjuepav ainiafiaTa, olo/uevof TU aKpuTT/pia wj>rof uirorfi^TiafS-^ai (s. 26). Engel (Kypros,.vol. i, p. 286) impugns the general correctness of this narrative of Isokrates. He produces no adequate reasons, nor do I myself see any, for this contradiction. Not only Konon, but also his friend Nikophemus, hai a wife end family at Cyprus, besides another family in Aths^s (Lysias, Dn Bonis Aristopha nis, Or. xix, s. 38).