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 FEUDS IK THE IMPERIAL FAMILY. 3(^5 Perhaps some of those citizens, who had been banished or deported at the close of the Lamian war, may have returned and continued to reside at Athens. But there still seems to have remained, during all the continuance of the Kassandrian Oligarchy, a body of adverse Athenian exiles, watching for an opportunity of over- throwing it, and seeking aid for that purpose from the -^Etolians and others.^ The acquisition of Athens by Kassander, followed up by his capture of Panaktum and Salamis, and seconded by his modera- tion towards the Athenians, procured for him considerable sup- port in Peloponnesus, whither he proceeded with his army .3 Many of the cities, intimidated or persuaded, joined him and deserted Polysperchon ; while the Spartans, now feeling for the first time their defenceless condition, thought it prudent to sur- round their city with walls.* This fact, among many others contemporaneous, testifies emphatically, how the characteristic sentiments of the Hellenic autonomous world were now dying out everywhere. The maintenance of Sparta as an unwalled city, was one of the deepest and most cherished of the Lykur- gean traditions ; a standing proof of the fearless bearing and self-confidence of the Spartans against dangers from without. The erection of the walls showed their own conviction, but too well borne out by the real circumstances around them, that the pressure of the foreigner had become so overwhelming as hardly to leave them even safety at home. The warfare between Kassander and Polysperchon became now embittered by a feud among the members of the Macedonian (which however there is not evidence enough to affirm), we eliminate the difficulty of supposing the slave women and children to be enumerated — and the free women and children not to be enumerated. We should be able to reason more confidently, if we knew the purpose for which the census had been taken — whether with a view to military or •Dolitical measures — to finance and taxation — or to the question of sub- sistence and importation of foreign corn (see Mr. Clinton's Fast. H. ad anu 444 B. c, about another census taken in reference to imported corn). 1 See Dionys. Halic. Judic. de Dinarcho, p. 6.58 Reisk. 3 Justin, xiv. 5; Diodor. xviii. 75; Pausan. vii. 8, 3; Tausanias, i «5, .5. 31*
 * Diodor. xviii. 75.