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Rh all the ret banihed; the Corinthians killed 120, banihed 500; Phæbidas banihed 300 Bœotians. Upon the fall of the Lacedæmonians, democracies were retored in many cities, and evere vengeance taken of the nobles: the banihed nobles returning, butchered their adveraries at Phialæ, in Corinth, in Megara, in Phliaia, where they killed 300 of the people; but thee again revolting, killed above 600 of the nobles, and banihed the ret. In Arcadia, 1400 banihed, beides many killed: the banihed retired to Sparta and Pallantium; the latter were delivered up to their countrymen, and all killed. Of the banihed from Argos and Thebes, there were 509 in the Spartan army. The people, before the uurpation of Agathocles, had banihed 600 nobles; afterwards that tyrant, in concurrence with the people, killed 4000 nobles, and banihed 6000; and killed 4000 people at Gela: his brother banihed 8000 from Syracue. The inhabitants of Ægeta, to the number of 40,000, were killed, man, woman, and child, for the ake of their money: all the relations of the Libyan army, fathers, brothers, children, killed: 7000 exiles killed after capitulation. Thee numbers, compared with the population of thoe cities, are prodigious; yet Agathocles was a man of character, and not to be upected of cruelty, contrary to the maxims of his age: uch were the fahionable outrages of unbalanced parties. In