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 HISTU/ii OF GREECE. Such are the main poit;ts of the long harangue ascribed to Theodoras ; the first occasion, for many years, on which the voice of free speech had been heard publicly in Syracuse. Among the charges advanced against Dionysius, which go to impeach his manner of carrying on the war against the Carthaginians, there are several which we can neither admit nor reject, from our insuffi- cient knowledge of the facts. But the enormities ascribed to him in his dealing with the Syracusans, the fraud, violence, spolia- tion, and bloodshed, whereby he had first acquired, and afterwards upheld, his dominion over them, these are assertions of matters of fact, which coincide in the main with the previous narrative of Diodorus, and which we have no ground for contesting. Hailed by the assembly with great sympathy and acclamation, this harangue seriously alarmed Dionysius. In his concluding words, Theodoras had invoked the protection of Corinth as well as of Sparta, against the despot, whom with such signal courage he had thus ventured publicly to arraign. Corinthians as well as Spartans were now lending aid in the defence, under the com- mand of Pharakidas. That Spartan officer came forward to speak next after Theodoras. Among various other sentiments of traditional respect towards Sparta, there still prevailed a remnant of the belief that she was adverse to despots ; as she really had once been, at an earlier period of her history. l Hence the Syra- cusans hoped, and even expected, that Pharakidas would second the protest of Theodoras, and stand forward as champion of free- dom to the first Grecian city in Sicily. 2 Bitterly indeed were they disappointed. Dionysius had established with Pharakidas relations as friendly as those of the Thirty tyrants at Athens with Kallibius the Lacedaemonian harmost in the acropolis. 3 Accord- ingly Pharakidas in his speech not only discountenanced the pro- position just made, but declared himself emphatically in favor of the despot ; intimating that he had been sent to aid the Syracu- sans and Dionysius against the Carthaginians, not to put do'^n 1 Thucyd. i, 18 ; Herodot. v. 92. ' Diodor. xiv, 70. Toiouroif TOV Qeodupov xp^ca^ivov Xo-yoif, oi HKV "ZvpaKovaioi f^ereupoi rat? il'v%aic tyevovTO, nai -rrpbr rovf avp/j.uxovf uneft'h.E- ifov. apaKi<5ou <5 TOV AaKsdatpoviov vavapxovvrof TLJV avftftayfttv, KOI na- peTi&ovTOf sTTt Td flf/fia, Trdvrec 7rpoae6oKuv upxijybv eaecrdai ri/e IXev&epiaf. Xenoph Hcllen. ii, 3, 14.
 * Diodor. xiv. 70. 'O 6e TU rrpo? rbv Tvpavvov e%uv o'tKeiuf, etc. ; compare