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 74 HISTORY OF GREECE. tility and jealousies one with the other, and to unite in making head against these two really formidable enemies, as their ances- tors had previously done, with equal zeal for putting down despots and for repelling the foreigner. He notes the number of Greeks (in Asia) handed over to the Persian king, whose great wealth would enable him to hire an indefinite number of Grecian soldiers, and whose naval force was superior to anything which the Greek* could muster ; while the strongest naval force in Greece was thai of the Syracusan Dionysius. Recognizing the Lacedaemonians as chiefs of Greece, Lysias expresses his astonishment that they should quietly permit the fire to extend itself from one city to an- other. They ought to look upon the misfortunes of those cities which had been destroyed, both by the Persians and by Dionysius, as coming home to themselves ; not to wait patiently, until the two hostile powers had united their forces to attack the centre of Greece, which yet remained independent. TOf. 'ETriaTdcrde 6e, OTL rj fiev up%i) TUV Kparovvruv TJjf i?aAa<7(r>?f, ruv 6e (3aaifai) raft'iaf TU Se TUV 'Ehhf/vuv auftara, TUV da dwapevuv vavf 6e iroAZaf avrbg KEKTIJTOI, n-o/Udf <?' o rvpavvof Tije StKe/Ua? . . . 'flare ugiov roijf irpoyovovf fj.ifj.Eicr&ai, ol rot)f /iev ftapfidpovc; inoirj- cav, TTjf u^oTpiag imdvpovvraf, T^C aQerepae avTuv tareprj^-Qoi- rovf 6e Tvpavvove i!;E?iuaavree, KOIVTJV airaai TTJV kfav&Epiav /carear^crav. Gaw/zafu 6e AaKedai/toviovc TTUVTUV pdhiaTa, rivi TTOTE yvupij xpufievoi, K.aiojtivr)v TTJV 'EA/luda Trepiopuff iv, fyyeftovef ov ref TUV 'Ehhyvuv, etc. .. . .Oil roivvv 6 emuv Katpbf TOV irapovToe pefoiuv ov -yap u7.7iorpinc del raf TUV uTroAuAoTwv ffv/Ltopu<; vopifciv, U.73C oineiac' ovS 1 uvajiElvat, luf uv in' aiiTove ii/iaf ai dvvd/ieif ufityorepuv (of Artaxerxes and Dionysius) ehduaiv, iM? luf ETI el-san, TTJV TOVTUV v/3piv Ku^vaai. Ephorus appears to have affirmed that there was a plan concerted be- tween the Persian king and Dionysius, for attacking Greece in concert and dividing it between them (see Ephori Fragm. 141, ed. Didot). The asser- tion is made by the rhetor Aristeides, and the allusion to Ephorus is here preserved by the Scholiast on Aristeides (who, however, is mistaken, in re- ferring it to Dionysius the younger). Aristeides ascribes the frustration of this attack to the valor of two Athenian generals, Iphikrates, and Timo- theus ; the former of whom captured the fleet of Dionysius, while4he lattci defeated the Lacedaemonian fleet at Leukas. But these events happened in 373372 B. c., when the power of Dionysius was not so formidable of aggressive as it had been between 387-382 B. c. ; moreover, the ships of Dionysius taken by Iphikrates were only ten in number, a small squadron Aristeides appears to me to have misconceived the date to which the asser Kon of Ephorus really referred.